Lyrics

Palm Trees

They're growing oranges in Kansas
another blow to Florida
The trees have all their leaves on Christmas Day
When I got up this morning
I was glad to greet the day
went out and picked an orange read the paper
section A

Teacher caught smoking cigarette
with a student in a car
They'll sentence him tomorrow
and send him off to Mars
where there are

no palm trees

palm trees

In a bar that lasts forever
or at least until
that map on the wall becomes Brazil
The skinny girls are beautiful
with their swooshtikas and things
I wish they like spoke English
and like knew what they had to say

about like most anything
that like crossed their minds
to like see if what's in there
is like in mine
anytime

like palm trees

palm trees


I like the way the wind sounds
on the water from the pier
It reminds me of the night I slept last year
And I do like the rain
that way it sways
but I swear
I'd throw it all away
to have winter back
and the devil and the cold
and angels with the blues
in that old worldly world of old
singing for my soul

despite the palm trees

palm trees