Meat Puppets – Up on the Sun

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A long time ago
I turned to myself
And said "You are my daughter"
I saw that the image I saw there was well
"So you are my daughter"
Well then maybe we've got something to talk about

Who told you so?
That gold burns slow
Like coal camper's candles all lost in the snow

Lay down, you're on
The warmth that I'm weaving is for you alone

Up on the sun
Where it never rains or snows
There's an ocean
With a wind that never blows
And if you see it closer
Then the finer points will show
Not too much more
Too much more

Up on the sun
Where it never rains or snows
There's an ocean
With a wind that never blows
And if you see it closer
Then the finer points will show
Not too much more
Too much more

Send "Up on the Sun" Ringtone to Cell


Lyrics submitted by brycec3

Track duration: 04:04

"Up on the Sun" as written by C. Kirkwood

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    General Comment:This song has such an amazingly special place in my heart. When my mom was in labor, my dad was playing a collection of mix tapes he had made for the occasion and this was the song that was playing when they finally got me out. I think the song is about Curt's daughter, but some of the stuff describes in a pretty poetic way what it'd be like to be standing on the sun if you interprit it that way.
    Flag octopuseyeson August 25, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I've always loved this song... still don't know what it's supposed to be about.
    Flag Sluggoon May 20, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I think i remember reading that they were playing some of their psychedelic and countryish stuff to their early-eighties hardcore audience, who hated it and were shouting "Hippies! Hippies!", so Curt started singing nonsensical lyrics like "A long time ago I turned to myself and said, 'you are my daughter'" to piss them off.
    A reviewer once called this song something like "the greatest demonstration of interplay between guitar, bass and drums ever written".
    I think i got all the above from the rykodisc re-release liner notes.
    Beautiful song
    Flag azkmon May 12, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:This song is amazing. This and plateau are my two favorite songs by the meat pupptets, plateau being one of my favorite if not my favorite song of all time (The meat puppets version, not nirvana's, even though that version was done very well). But you could probably tell by my username :P
    Flag Plateauon June 22, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:easily one of my favorite songs of all time.
    Flag brycec3on June 18, 2006   Link

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