arizona - mp3

let's take the top down, it’s a rental
I don’t care how fast we drive
I don’t care right now in this moment
If I even come back alive

there’s a stray hair in your lashes
it's about the cutest thing I’ve seen
when you turn your face to me in slo-mo
like a francois truffaut dream

show me your arizona
show me your painted sky
drive me out into the dessert and hold me
like I was your regular guy
won’t you let me
pretend for a while

I've got five hondo in my pocket
and it’s burning a great big hole
tell me what’s the current market value
on one human being’s soul

here and now I feel like a million
turn my face to the blazing sun
I don’t care if I get cancer
‘cause my time is almost done

show me your vanishing waters
show me your precious pearl
show me the cornucopia
all the good stuff in the world

show me your arizona
show me your painted sky
show me one sweet day of wonder
one day before I die

copyright 2003 by Simon Gray

after 5 years together, I knew I did not want to spend the holiday in the same town as you, but not be with you. there is only so much I could bear.

so tracy set me up with a ticket to vegas. I had never been to the desert. she thought it would be a good distraction.

i was numb. like i used to feel when I was a child. I stumbled around among the party people. alcohol had no effect. sadness swallowed me like a whale.

I had come with every penny I had, fully intending to never come back. If I could not be with you, then what was I hanging around for?

then I met debbie. she was an escort. met her right on the street. I guess she saw something in my face. we talked and talked. she told me about growing up in arizona, and how beautiful the desert can be. I rented a convertible and we drove out into the hills to lie under the painted sky.

I could feel the warm breeze on my face, I could smell the small bright flowers all around. I could hear the animals in the hills. my numbness was melting.

she never touched me. but she brought me back from the dead.

I have been loved by a few people I have known for many years, and by one person I knew for barely one day