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To Try for the Sun Lyrics

Artist: Donovan Leitch
Album: Fairytale

From the album fairytale

We stood in the windy city,
The gypsy boy and I.
We slept on the breeze in the midnight
With the rain droppin' tears in our eyes.
And who's going to be the one
To say it was no good what we done?
I dare a man to say I'm too young,
For I'm going to try for the sun.
We huddled in a derelict building
And when he thought I was asleep
He laid his poor coat round my shoulder,
And shivered there beside me in a heap.
And who's going to be the one
To say it was no good what we done?
I dare a man to say I'm too young,
For I'm going to try for the sun.
We sang and cracked the sky with laughter,
Our breath turned to mist in the cold.
Our years put together count to thirty,
But our eyes told the dawn we were old.
And who's going to be the one
To say it was no good what we done ?
I dare a man to say I'm too young,
For I'm going to try for the sun.
Mirror, mirror, hanging in the sky,
Won't you look down what's happening here below?
I stand here singing to the flowers,
So very few people really know.
And who's going to be the one
To say it was no good what we done?
I dare a man to say I'm too young,
For I'm going to try for the sun.
We stood in the windy city
The gypsy boy and I.
We slept on the breeze in the midnight,
With the rain droppin' tears in our eyes.
And who's going to be the one
To say it was no good what we done ?
I dare a man to say I'm too young,
For I'm going to try for the sun.

Comments/Interpretations

by KL Fan on 2/26/2010 7:32pm
Why do they have "Donovan" and "Donovan Leitch" listed as two separate entries? They're the same person. Oh and despite what people think this is not a gay song. It is about two road buddies heading to a bohemian lifestyle.

by Sara on 5/1/2010 7:23am
This song is 100% autobiographical. It tells of Donovan's early days on the road with his best friend Gypsy Dave and they often slept in dereclit buildings. But they loved women so there!