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