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