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Sunday Morning Coming Down Lyrics
Well, I woke up sunday morning
with no way to hold my head, that didn't hurt
and the beer I had for breakfast
wasn't bad so I had one more for dessert
Than I fumble through my closet for
my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt
and I shaved my face and combed my hair
and stumbled down the stairs to meet the day
I'd smoked my brain the night before
and cigarettes and songs that I've been pickin'
but I lit my first and watched a small kid
cussin' at a can that he was kicking
Then I crossed the empty street and caught
the sunday smell of someone fryin' chicken
and it took me back to somethin' that
I'd lost somehow somewhere along away
On a sunday mornin' sidewalks
wishing Lord that I was stoned
'cause there is something in a sunday
that makes a body feel alone
And there's nothin' short of dyin'
half as lonesome as the sound
on the sleepin' city side walks
Sunday mornin' comin' down
In the park I saw a daddy with
a laughing little girl who he was swingin'
and I stopped beside a sunday school
and listened to the song that they were singin'
Then I headed back for home and
somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin'
and it echoed thru the canyon like
the disepparing dreams of yesterday
with no way to hold my head, that didn't hurt
and the beer I had for breakfast
wasn't bad so I had one more for dessert
my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt
and I shaved my face and combed my hair
and stumbled down the stairs to meet the day
and cigarettes and songs that I've been pickin'
but I lit my first and watched a small kid
cussin' at a can that he was kicking
the sunday smell of someone fryin' chicken
and it took me back to somethin' that
I'd lost somehow somewhere along away
wishing Lord that I was stoned
'cause there is something in a sunday
that makes a body feel alone
And there's nothin' short of dyin'
half as lonesome as the sound
on the sleepin' city side walks
Sunday mornin' comin' down
a laughing little girl who he was swingin'
and I stopped beside a sunday school
and listened to the song that they were singin'
somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin'
and it echoed thru the canyon like
the disepparing dreams of yesterday
Song Info
Copyright
Lyrics © Sony/atv Music Publishing Llc, O/b/o Distrokid
Writer
Kris Kristofferson
Duration
4:09
Producer
Bob Johnston
Release date
Jul 06, 1970
Sentiment
Positive
Submitted by
smfhdsiadjdchs On Jul 07, 2002
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No, I think it's about someone who came home drunk as a skunk on a Saturday night and was sleeping his hangover off and now everything's worse around him becuase he sees what all he could have had.
"On a sunday mornin' sidewalks wishing Lord that I was stoned" i get that one. sometimes its just easier to be stoned, and sometimes you just cant get stoned, and so you wish you were because you just feel better.
The man in the song is something that every one of us could become when the chips fall against us.
This is a great song. Its a erally sad song about a drunk burnout who lives alone and stammers through the streets on a sunday evening. He sees things that he passed up because of his addiction to alcohol and drugs and he feels alone and isolated from the world. He says that he just wishes he didn't feel so lonesome - "I'm wishing lord that I was stoned, cause there is something in a sunday that makes the body feel alone"
This is an excellent song. Check it out if you haven't already.
This song is Johnny Cash personified ... living life the hard way and telling it the way it is. I don't think it's about some drunk burnout, I think it's about JC and his inability to draw the line even though he so clearly sees the mess he has created around him. Best line was already pointed out ... "I'm wishing lord that I was stoned, cause there is something in a sunday that makes the body feel alone." He's so far gone that he doesn't know where to turn. Even when he turns to god he's not looking to change his life, just a way out of how he's feeling. Great song, not so great to live it though.
great song. you should check out the version by the handsome family.
this song means what it says it was written by Kris Kristopherson an unsung hero in the world of music he lived the life as well
wow! yes, the handsome family. I was about to suggest the same thing.
This song almost sounds like something I would hear at a church service where the singer ends up being redeemed before the LORD. I was shocked to learn that Kris Kristofferson wrote this tune. He's one of the best classic songwriters of music and he's a legend. The man actually on his way to receive his first ever country music award. He was dressed in a bad suit and he looked like a hippie from Woodstock at the time. As Chuck D said about Nirvana, "it was a changing of the guard". The same can be applied to Cash and Kristofferson about country music.
Am I the only one who thinks he's saying 'stone' and not 'stoned'? I don't hear the 'd'