The Airport Mesa Lyrics

When the first light fell on the red rocks there

I tossed and I turned to you

Shunned the morning outside our room

But it found its way through the curtain's cracks

At that point it had begun, but you were nothin' like the sun

Cuz it wasn't the day you'd break

You were a tremor

Always up for a wild, wild time

Here on our private planet where I was your man and mistake

Don't you remember

A rocky start cracked from a granite pledge

We went up to the canyon and got dizzy close to the edge

When the light broke through, rolling the storm clouds there

It felt like a strange new home, all awash in the afterglow

Just a ghostly rain through the windchime trees

I thought we'd stay a while, but your cemetery smile

Said we'd never come back again

Was I a terror

Always down for a sad, sad song

On a petrified planet, I don't understand my chagrin

Can you remember

You said the climb – it wasn't dangerous

A soft slope in a slight breeze, the vortices swirling 'round us

When we reached Jerome's tapered paths up there

They said that the town was closed, doors shuttered and no one home

But we didn't care. We stood by the rusty rail

There was so much to be done, while the blood-red setting sun

Darkened the valley's spread

Were we a horror

Bound for a hard, hard time

On a perilous planet where I lost my balance and head

You must remember

Come on and give a little secret sign

Cuz I'm always yours, and of course, in some ways you will always be mine