歌曲名 The Painted Desert 歌手名 10+000 Maniacs

作词：Jerome Augustyniak+Natalie Merchant

作曲：Jerome Augustyniak+Natalie Merchant

The Painted Desert can wait till summer

We've played this game of just imagine long enough

Wait till summer

When I'm sure the rains have ended the blooms have gone

everyone killed by the morning frost

Is a cactus blooming there in every roadside stand

where the big deal is cowboy gear won in Japan

The Painted Desert can wait till summer

We've played this game of just imagine long enough

Wait till summer

When I'm sure the rains have ended and the blooms have gone

everyone killed by the morning frost

Is a cactus blooming there upon the Northern rim

or in the ruins of the Hopi mesa dens

You met a new friend in the Canyon or so you wrote

On a blanket in the cooling sand you and your friend agreed that

the stars were so many there they seemed to overlap

The Painted Desert can wait till summer

We've played this game of just imagine long enough

Wait till summer

When I am sure the rain has ended the blooms have gone

everyone killed by the morning frost

Was a cactus blooming there as you watched the Native boy

In Flagstaff trailer court you wrote the line

He kicked a tumbleweed and his mother called him home

where the Arizona moon met the Arizona sun

I wanted to be there by May at the latest time

Isn't that the plan we had or have you changed your mind

I haven't read a word from you since Phoenix or Tucson

April is over will you tell me how long before I can be there