Color in Your Cheeks

She came in on the red eye to Dallas-Ft. Worth

All the way from sunny Taipei

Skin the color of a walnut shell

And a baseball cap holding down her black hair

And she came here after midnight

The hot weather made her feel right at home

Come on in, we haven't slept for weeks

Drink some of this, it'll put color in your cheeks

He drove in from Mexicali, no worse for wear

Money to burn, time to kill

But five minutes looking in his eyes and we all knew

He was broken pretty bad so we gave him what we had

We cleared a space for him to sleep in

And we let the silence that's our trademark make its

presence felt

Come on in, we haven't slept for weeks

Drink some of this, it'll put color in your cheeks

They came in by the dozens, walking or crawling

Some were bright-eyed, some were dead on their feet

And they came from Zimbabwe or from Soviet Georgia

East St. Louis or from Paris or they lived across the

street

But they came, and when they finally made it here

It was the least we could do to make our welcome clear

Come on in, we haven't slept for weeks

Drink some of this, it'll put color in your cheeks