Two hundred miles around the sun Always in the need Top of all the wreckage He's who everybody pays to see He's gonna be the best That's what everyone would say Trouble with the turns But recovers on the straight away Showered in the sparkling rain he says Cover me in gold Cover me in gold I turn another corner and I'm never coming back One day it went awry Something came off track Wheels continued spinning But they never started bouncing back There's a shiny little box Underneath the bed A harvester of sorrow Filled with tiny little drops of lead Buried to his temple he said Cover me in gold Cover me in gold Cover me in gold Cover me in gold I turn another corner and I'm never coming back When the cover-up was done Everybody lied They could take away the evidence And still we'd never make you lie