Small Café with a Real Steel Drum
Way on out past Jupiter, Neptune swings on a giant string
Blue and all alone it goes a beautiful place well I suppose
Just a planet on its own a way out past the inhabitable zone
It can sing as it draws near through thick and muffled atmosphere.
No one goes there on vacation
No one calls it a sovereign nation
No one there breaks the traffic laws
No one waits for Santa Clause
No one visits white sand beaches
Drinking tequila and eating peaches
No one sends a post card from a small café
With a real steel drum.
Far away when you look out into the stars and all about
The silence is as deep as this, the universe is like a kiss
Its unforgettable deep and true the way I always think of you
Alone with me upon the sand in that exotic distant land.
No one goes there on vacation
No one calls it a sovereign nation
No one there breaks the traffic laws
No one waits for Santa Clause
No one visits white sand beaches
Wearing Bikinis and eating peaches
No one sends a post card from a small café
With a real steel drum.
I think of Neptune like a jewel in the bottom of an endless pool
With distance far and distance long the universe is like a song
Let’s go to Neptune for a while I don’t care if its not in style
We could be there all alone no not even a telephone.
No one goes there on vacation
No one calls it a sovereign nation
No one there breaks the traffic laws
No one waits for Santa Clause
No one visits white sand beaches
Drinking tequila and eating peaches
No one sends a post card from a small café
With a real steel drum.
Written by Sara Hoxie. Song appeared on Waterfall Boy.
