The Painted Desert - 10,000 Maniacs

The painted desert can wait till summer

We've played this game of

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

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