The Summer Before

out of the camera lens

is arizona

and arizona's as good as

california

then tell you in confidence,

If it wasn't for you

in arizona

out from an instrument

the calm before it

I saw the bloodstains

all sorrows are wasted on you

in arizona

hold the machinery

and call the foreman

make the sun rise

and tell all the coffins

all summer was wasted on you,

Arizona

i'll see you someday

the sky and night's home

the clouds roll in

arizona

all of the sighing children,

the summer before they came to know us.

said all of the sighing children

on the summer before they came to know us.

out of the camera lens

is arizona

and arizona's as good as california

then tell you in confidence

if it wasn't for you

out from an instrument

in arizona

all summer's wasted on you

and arizona