When the Sun Took a Day Off and the Moon Stood Still

Lyrics

[Intro: Aceyalone] Hey man get some popcorn In the tradition of the inner city griots we are We take you though a journey through a story To a place and a time in a small town But as you listen you're to pay no nevermind to the small town And the time and the place A place where the moon and the sun does as it pleases A place where everybody knows everybody else's business A place that basically could be anywhere Listen [Verse 1: Self Jupiter] Check it out And the sun took a day off and the moon stood still The only light was in sight was the one just past that ol' onion field If you look from where I'm standing you'll see that old scarecrow They say if you look too long he might jump off that wooden bow But between you and me I think that's a bunch of 'hey, you know' Some even believe he was 'sponsible for the death of Old Man Dan They found him without his thinking cap with straw in his hand And the strangest thing about it is that they never found his head They never found his head, they never found his head God dammit, they never found Old Man Dan's head [Verse 2: Aceyalone] And they'll never find it, cause I took it, nah, didn't go like that at all See I just hated that his eye was crooked and I wanted his eyeball And things got out of hand and Old Man Dan had to die Because of that eye, I can tell you them scarecrow stories are lies What I did hear when the moon was full and the sun's about to rise People walk by thinking about that head at the crack of dawn, then cry [Hook: Self Jupiter & Aceyalone] And the sun took a day off and the moon stood still Around my part of town the moon got a frown cause he can see it all from the top And the sun took a day off and the moon stood still Around my part of town the sun be clownin' And the sun took a day off and the moon stood still Around my part of town the stars come to work all drunk And the sun took a day off and the moon stood still Around my part of town the moon got a frown cause he can see it all from the top [Verse 3: Aceyalone] In the small town of fifteen hundred haunted houses on every corner Lived the oldest lady in the world, a loner Ms. Desmona Loraine Cortez, from Barcelona, Spain, said She came to reclaim her family's name and put her soul to rest, yes On sacred ground, her family owned this town And the people in it, too, but I was just passing through She said "people around here believe in voodoo, witchcraft, taboo" It was kinda hard for me to take this all for true But she did say when a stranger comes to town here's what they'll do First they'll stone you and when you come to Then they'll own you, there's no one to run to When the sun takes a day off and the moon stands still [Verse 4: Self Jupiter] Well, this is what I heard, the sun blew a fuse and the moon had stood in lieu Now morning came with rain and went from wetness down to the evening Sang the birds ??? and stayed thought the noon A piano plays a tune in which a woman's voice softly croons Adamantly, she yells uncharacteristically "dance with me you fool" Well not only was I introduced but Apparently being seduced but by whom For name's sake, let's just call the mysterious lady in maroon Fresh from Sandos Cancun Whisper things in my ear and make the flesh of a grown man's hand move Suspenseful hypnotic, neither erotic nor exotic But psychotic, in a sense for instance, she made reference to actually Raising the dead, in a sentence she once said with dread [Hook: Self Jupiter & Aceyalone] And the sun took a day off and the moon stood still Around my part of town the moon be locked in his room doin' 'shrooms And the sun took a day off and the moon stood still Around my part of town the moon be in a hot air balloon to the moon And the sun took a day off and the moon stood still Around my part of town the moon just be faded ??? And the sun took a day off and the moon stood still Around my part of town the moon got a frown cause he can see it all from the top [Bridge: Aceyalone] And sometimes he'll stop, look out with a star gaze Sometimes he'll cover his face and he won't be seen for days The sun had took a day off and the moon stood still The sun had took a day off and the moon stood still For real [Outro] Woman: "Hey Baby, come here, look at the sun, I mean, look at the moon, I've never seen them out at the same time. Baby, tha-that's pretty" Man: "Oh girl, come on in here, you don't want look at the skyline out there, come on, come on. It's been dark for a whole day, come on, the sun don't wanna come out, come on in here, you're lettin' all the heat out" When the sun took a day off (day off) And the moon (moon) stood still (still, still)