Southern Sun (Acoustic)

I stood out there in the covering

In the baskings of a holy night

I was lucid and conscious

And hovering like a firefly

My mind stretched out on the canopy

Put its arms out slow

I heard the whispers of silence

Floating down from the radio

And come on, come on, I'm ready now

I got the feeling, honey, like I'm ready to roll

You see, I'm not gonna wait till the end of me

I got the burnin' fire in the bed of my soul

And I saw the light from a kettle gun

Sixteen days under a southern sun

And there were times when I thought that

I wouldn't mind it if I lost my mind out there

You wouldn't believe me if I told you so

Things that I saw were enough to make the man in me

A man of me

Mmm, make a man of me

So come on, come on, I'm ready now

Go get your things out, honey, let's get ready to roll

Oh, I can feel the wave comin' over me

I been waiting for this day too long just to let it all go

And as a child, I was wonder-eyed

At the thought that I might know

A life in the ecstasy of rock and roll, no

I'm not takin' it slow, no

I'm an arrow in a bow, no

Oh, you think that I don't know

What it is that makes it glow, no, no

So come on, come on, I'm ready now

I got the feeling, honey, like I'm ready to roll

You see, I'm not gonna wait till the end of me

I got the burnin' fire in the bed of my soul