Yellow Ray

from One Footed Pigeon by Matthew Inkala & the Hostages

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Yellow Ray

Early morning, the marble sun
With its yellow swirls and its ray gun
Starts to warm up the world out my window
Uh huh

Early morning, the same glass sun
Touches you on the cheek as you sleep uh huh
Starts to warm up the girl that I'll want soon
Oh I'll see

She likes to walk in the park in the morning
Gets coffee at the corner-shop at the end of my block
Well I don't know what she fancies just yet
But that'll soon change

I drink coffee from the same pot as she
I people watch in that park that she frequents
We laugh at the same human silliness
Her and me

Today the sun rose as it has tendency to do
Or so it appears to little me and you
The sun shone down and gave me clues to your existence
Once I knew that you were here girl
I had to plot my entrance into the same yellow ray
The same yellow ray where it collides with the gray
The gray sidewalk where at long last our story can start
Our story can start...

She likes to walk in the park in the morning
Gets coffee at the corner-shop at the end of my block
Well I don't know what she fancies just yet
But that'll soon change...

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from One Footed Pigeon, released July 1, 2010

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