Simon and Garfunkel - The Sun Is Burning

Collected Works / 1981-03-01 1. 7 o'clock News/Silent Night 2. AMERICA 3. Anji 4. April Come She Will 5. At the Zoo 6. A Most Peculiar Man 7. A Poem on the Underground Wall 8. A Simple Desultory Philippic 9. Baby Driver 10. Benedictus 11. Bleeker Street 12. Blessed 13. Bookends Theme 14. Bridge Over Troubled Water 15. Bye Bye Love 16. Cecilia 17. Cloudy 18. EL CONDOR PASA (IF I COULD) 19. Fakin' It 20. Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall 21. For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her 22. Go Tell It On The Mountain 23. Hazy Shade of Winter 24. He Was My Brother 25. Homeward Bound 26. I Am a Rock 27. Kathy's Song 28. Keep the Customer Satisfied 29. Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream 30. Leaves That Are Green 31. Old Friends 32. Overs 33. Patterns 34. Peggy-O (Traditonal) 35. Punky's Dilemma 36. Richard Cory 37. Save the Life of My Child 38. Scarborough Fair/Canticle 39. Somewhere They Can't Find Me 40. Song for the Asking 41. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright 42. Sparrow 43. The 59th Street Bridge Song 44. The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine 45. The Boxer 46. The Dangling Conversation 47. The Only Living Boy in New York 48. The Sound Of Silence 49. The Sun Is Burning 50. The Times They Are A-Changin' 51. Voices of Old People 52. We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin' 53. Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. 54. Why Don't You Write Me 55. You Can Tell The World

The Sun Is Burning

The sun is burning in the sky
Strands of clouds go slowly drifting by
In the park the lazy breeze
Are joining in the flowers, among the trees
And the sun burns in the sky

Now the sun is in the West
Little kids go home to take their rest
And the couples in the park
Are holdin' hands and waitin' for the dark
And the sun is in the West

Now the sun is sinking low
Children playin' know it's time to go
High above a spot appears
A little blossom blooms and then draws near
And the sun is sinking low

Now the sun has come to Earth
Shrouded in a mushroom cloud of death
Death comes in a blinding flash
Of hellish heat and leaves a smear of ash
And the sun has come to Earth

Now the sun has disappeared
All is darkness, anger, pain and fear
Twisted, sightless wrecks of men
Go groping on their knees and cry in pain
And the sun has disappeared