From the recording City Life
Lyrics
I could hear the winter start
The kind of change I picked apart
Like I’m steeped in hunger
August came, still no rain
Needle in, still no pain
And us not getting younger
Moving south, counting crumbs
Another place not to be from
Where lightning touches sky
Crumpled cans and fragrant smoke
Someone laughs but there’s no joke
Distilling how from why
I was crazy in the heat…
Crazy in the heat…
Fallacies come pouring out
No one listens while I shout
“Drag me into sunshine”
The downward slope of 35
The razor blade keeps us alive
Taking what’s yours as mine
I was crazy in the heat…
Crazy in the heat…
And I could start
Every new day
With the courage…
Could you tell when I first fell
Into the soul I tried to sell
Dropped down in a bottle
You wrote yourself into the words
That flew right past my head like birds
Pushed down on the throttle
I was crazy in the heat…
Crazy in the heat…
And I could start
Every new day
With the courage…
Left alone without my thoughts
Telltale symptoms of my doubts
Curses in disguise
Swerving into coming cars
Falling sick in nameless bars
Bleeding from my eyes
I was crazy in the heat…
Crazy in the heat…
And I could start
Every new day
We left there in the month of June
Running west none too soon
But damage had been taken
My thoughts of Rachel disappear
Day to day and year to year
With all I had forsaken
I was crazy in the heat…
Crazy in the heat…
And I could start
Every new day