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Eight minutes out,
still warm
when
it lands.
Ninety-three million miles and it's early,
Gold on the fire escape,
coffee gone cold. Nobody billed me for the morning,
Nobody billed me for the gold.
Roof tiles humming like they know something,
Meter spinning backwards in the hall,
Old star doing overtime for nothing,
Nothing, nothing at all.
It's rising, it's rising,
Slow gold, slow gold,
Hold it, hold it,
Don't let go, don't let go.
Let it in.
Sun sun sunlight, turn it up loud,
Power in the palm leaves,
fire in the cloud!
Free on the rooftop,
free on the bus,
Soak it up, soak it up,
sunlight runs on us!
Sun sun sunlight, nothing to owe,
Everything living is something it grew,
Free in the river,
free in the dust,
Soak it up, soak it up,
sunlight runs on us!
Photons don't ask what you did for a living,
Don't check the postcode,
don't check the name,
Same beam on the tower and the tenement,
Falling the same, falling the same.
Green leaf turning it to sugar,
Blue wave holding it for years,
Every fire we ever lit was borrowed,
Borrowed from up here.
Slow gold, slow gold,
Slow gold,
let it in!
One hour of light,
a whole year of us.
Soak it up.
(mmm warm light)