Jason Robert Brown
Out Of The Sun
[JOHNNY, spoken]
You're Thinking about Donna, right?
[TOMMY, spoken]
Remember how she'd lie out here, with the Sidney Sheldon books and coconut oil?
[JOHNNY, spoken]
She couldn't get enough
[TOMMY, spoken]
All day, every day. Right after breakfast, always at the same spot, by the shallow end
[sung]
When we're young, we think that we're invincible
We act like we know all there is to know
We pop our pills, or smoke our dope
And never realize that hope
Is just a visitor, a guest star on the show
When we're young, we don't know from impossible
We put our faith in moxie and romance
But when it's ripped away, tossed out the door
It strips your innocence right to the core
And soon you spend your time just wishing for
A second chance
I never knew, I never guessed
That what could kill you is the thing you love the best
I should have gotten her out of the sun
When she reclined, clouds disappeared
She smelled like coconuts from all the oil she shmeared
I should have gotten her out of the sun
But she was beautiful, beyond compare
Roasting like a chicken in her chair
Look at how the colour of her hair
Changes as the day burns on
She wore no Coppertone, she wore no hat
The doctors swore they never saw skin look like that
Like a saddlebag
Ooh, saddlebag...
I was a fool
So blind and deaf
I might have saved her with a higher S.P.F
But now she's gone, what's past is past
What's done is done!
Could I feel rottener?
I wish I'd gotten 'er out of the sun