Lyrics

sunlight on her face - david zach

precious girl from the countryside / the only daughter of a farmer’s bride / with so much to fear and so much to hide / and she hides / she’s resigned it seems and exhausted too / she’s got memories of a dream that got lost en route but her eyes still gleam from across the room / i write a love song for a prostitute // sunlight on her face // and her hair falls over her shoulder / she’s so elegant as if she was older /i was there on the day that they sold her / while she went away where they told her / and she prayed to you in the issan rain /she prayed but she never knew your name / she prayed to you but you never came / she prays still but it still stays the same // sunlight - sunlight on her face / she wants to feel sunlight - sunlight on her face // maybe i lost myself in this venture / i can drink more but i can’t quench thirst / i can knock on the door but i can’t enter / i’m not free anymore if if she’s indentured / she prayed to you in the issan rain / she prayed but she never knew your name / she prayed to you but you never came oh she prays still but it still stays the same // sunlight - sunlight on her face / she wants to feel sunlight - sunlight on her face // alabaster perfume on your feet from her hair / she’s the last in the room and the first to care / she held you at the tomb with the dew in the air / cruel spear in your side on the hill she was there / on the wall with the spies under pale moon / hid em there by her side in the back of the room / she’s a child and a bride in sahara dune / she’s a daughter of syria and camaroon / from the streets of brazil to the hills of thailand / on the bullet strewn fields of uganda sand / she’s maybe fifteen - she’s american / she praying are you listening? do you understand? // sunlight - sunlight on her face / she wants to feel sunlight - sunlight on her face