on a sunday afternoon

Madeleine Peyroux

Nobody s causing any trouble
Nobody s trying to pick a fight
We re all just soaking up this Sunday summer sun
Feeling glad to be alive

Ain t gonna worry bout tomorrow
And even less about today
We re gonna watch the light go down on the horizon
Let ev ry moment slip away

Jesse tore up his apartment
Just why he wouldn t say
Now he sits there in his bedroom
and he won t come out to play

Oh, yeah
It s a Sunday Afternoon
Got Cap n Crunch and Reefer and old cartoons
When I get up tomorrow
It ll be too soon
We re lazing on a Sunday afternoon

The daily news keeps getting stranger
But medical Mary keeps me cool
They all used to say I d be a failure but I m breezin
Although I know sometimes
I get a bit confused

Everybody needs a purpose
Some kind of driving force in life
I ain t gonna have the admiration of the world
but I m already famous in my mind

Martha hitched from San Francisco
back to her parents by the Bay
She s doin mandalas and boxing
at least that s what the doctors say

Oh yeah
It s a Sunday afternoon
Got Cap n Crunch and Reefer and old cartoons
If the aliens are comin
Hope they come soon
We re lazing on a Sunday afternoon