Salton Sea

Lyrics

[Verse 1] We'll spend our very last days together There in the sun by the Salton Sea shore Spread our blankets by the shells of the old bay shops And the liquor stores Catch some fat dead fish Out at Bombay Beach Drink long, cool agua negras while our bones get bleached [Pre-Chorus 1] We'll watch the ghost of Enola Gay Drop its dummy A bombs As they practice dropping Japs away We'll be playing croquet on the phosphate lawns [Chorus] Ooh, ooh, we can moan with the world Ooh, ooh, sit and groan with the world Gonna cry for our lost splendor Mumble holy prayers we barely remember We were kings and queens, now our brittle-bone dreams Are shipwrecked on the Salton Sea Ooh, ooh [Verse 2] Hear Sinatra and the Rat Pack singing Their voices carried on the desert wind They gig nightly at "Desolate Resort" 'Cause they're dedicated men And the sea hags clean the ash trays Daily change the algae sheets And the sleepers' souls are sowin' what the rusty reaper reaps [Pre-Chorus 2] The phantom of the Southern Pacific Sinks beneath the new river's flood Roaring in from Mexicali, down into this rancid valley Drinking flesh and blood [Chorus] Ooh, ooh, we will moan with the world Ooh, ooh, sit and groan with the world Gonna cry for our lost splendor Mumble holy prayers we barely remember We were kings and queens, now our brittle-bone dreams Are shipwrecked on the Salton Sea Ooh, ooh [Guitar Solo] [Pre-Chorus 1] We'll watch the ghost of Enola Gay Drop its dummy A bombs As they practice dropping Japs away We'll be playing croquet on the phosphate lawns [Chorus] Ooh, ooh, ah, we will groan with the world Ooh, ooh, sit and moan with the world Gonna cry for our lost splendor Mumble holy prayers we barely remember We were kings and queens, now our brittle-bone dreams Are shipwrecked on the Salton Sea [Outro] (A watery grave for you and me) ('Neath the stagnant waves of the Salton Sea) (Let's go down) Ooh, ooh (A watery grave for you and me) (Everybody drown) We can moan with the world ('Neath the stagnant waves of the Salton Sea) (Let's go down) Ooh, ooh (A watery grave for you and me) Sit and groan with the world (Everybody drown) ('Neath the stagnant waves of the Salton Sea) (A watery grave for you and me) (Everybody drown) We can moan with the world