Let's spend our very last days together there in the sun by the Salton seashore,
Spread our blankets by the shells of the old bait shops and the liquor stores,
Catch some fat dead fish out at Bombay Beach,
Drink long cool agua negras while our bones get bleached,
Watch the ghost of Enola Gay drop it's dummy A-bombs,
As they practice blowing Japs away, we are playing croquet on the phosphate lawns.
Ooh, we can moan with the world,
Ooh, sit and groan with the world,
Gonna cry for our lost splendour,
Mumble holy prayers we barely remember,
We were king and queens, now our brittle-boned dreams are shipwrecked on the Salton Sea.
Ooh.
Hear Sinatra and the Rat Pack swinging; 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 sleeper's souls are sowing what the rusty reaper reaps,
The phantom of the southern pacific sinks beneath New River's flood,
Roaring in from Mexicali down into this rancid valley, drinking flesh and blood.
Ooh, we will moan with the world,
Ooh, sit and groan with the world,
Gonna cry for our lost splendour,
Mumble holy prayers we barely remember,
We were king and queens, now our brittle-boned dreams are shipwrecked on the Salton Sea.
Ooh.
Watch the ghost of Enola Gay dropping it's dummy A-bombs,
As they practice blowing Japs away, we are playing croquet on the phosphate lawns.
Ooh, we will groan with the world,
Ooh, sit and moan with the world,
Gonna cry for our lost splendour,
Mumble holy prayers we barely remember,
We were king and queens, now our brittle-boned dreams are shipwrecked on the Salton Sea.
Watery grave for you and me 'neath the stagnant waves of the Salton Sea, (let's go down, everybody drown)
Watery grave for you and me 'neath the stagnant waves of the Salton Sea, (let's go down, everybody drown)
Watery grave for you and me 'neath the stagnant waves of the Salton Sea, (let's go down, everybody drown)
Watery grave for you and me 'neath the stagnant waves of the Salton Sea. (let's go down, everybody drown)
