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 you came to know us
Said all of the sighing children
The summer before you 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, Arizona
All summer's wasted on you, Arizona