Southern Sun

In all you've seen, what was it that came down on me that night?

A conjuring; I held on to that moment and lie just to make it alive

I stood out there in the covering

In the baskings of a holy night

And I was lucid and conscious

And hovering like a firefly

My mind stretched out on the canopy

It put its arms out slow

And I heard the whispers of silence

Floating down from the radio

So come on, come on I'm ready now

I got the feeling, honey, like I'm ready to roll

You see I'm not gonna wait till the end of me

'Cause I got the burning fire in bed of my soul

I saw the light from a kettle gun

Sixteen days under a Southern Sun

And there were times when I thought that

I wouldn't mind it if I lost my mind out there

You wouldn't believe me if I told you so

The things I saw were enough to make the man in me a man of me

Mmm, make a man of me

So come on, come on I'm ready now

Go get your things out, honey, let's get ready to roll

Oh, I can feel the wave coming over me

I've been waiting for this day too long just to let it all go

As a child I was wonder-eyed

At the thought that might I know

A life in the ecstasy of rock 'n' roll

I'm not taking it slow

I'm an arrow in a bow

You think that I don't know

What it is that makes it glow

So come on, come on I'm ready now

I got the feeling, honey, like I'm ready to roll

You see I'm not gonna wait till the end of me

'Cause I got the burning fire in bed of my soul