The Summer Before

And out of the camera lens is Arizona

And Arizona's as good as California

I'd tell you in confidence if it wasn't for you

In Arizona, out on a mission there



The calm before it I saw the bloodstains

All sorrows wasted on you in Arizona

Hold the machinery and call the foremen

Make the sun rise and tell all the coffins



All the summer's rage is on you in Arizona

And I am a simple man

The sky and night's cold

The crowd is roaming in Arizona



All of the sighing children

The summer before you came to know us

Said all of the sighing children

On the summer before you came to know us



Out of the camera lens is Arizona

And Arizona's as good as California

I'd tell you in confidence if it wasn't for you

Out on a mission here in Arizona



All the summer's wasted on you in Arizona

All the summer's wasted on you in Arizona