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Along the Palo Duro canyon
Red River shows so may eyes
One eye squinting, shaded from the sun, shoot me
Black a oil, his hair shone
Lily white, his skin glistened
Restless as the reed between his lips blew
It's just that mean old Texas sun
It makes me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head
What day is this? I, quiet, asked the sky
What time is it? he asked me, sitting up
Love that villan on the run
He's got me spinning 'round and falling on my head
What are you running from? I asked the white boy
From the guys who chase me there; come run
I need your dark skin
To sit beside me in my car, light up my cigar
I'll light you
It's just that mean old Texas sun
It makes me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head
Love that villan on the run
He's got me spinning 'round and falling on my head
And dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head
He said you're ony Indian in Oklahoma
You could be melting in America
White on red, melt with my skin
These two hearts will beat along the walls of our hotel
I need your dark skin...
It's just that mean old Texas sun
It makes me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head
The last I saw of Oklahoma
A gas station fading in the dusk
Goodbye my father, I thought, I'm carrying the light
The light of my Comanche
Make sure the dog remembers me,
I dream the sand beneath your feet
I hold the light
It's just that mean old Texas sun
It makes me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head
Love that villan on the run
He's got me spinning 'round and falling on my head
And dizzy...in my head
My favorite Throwing Muses song. The story it tells is just lightly evoked but so full of atmosphere. It's like a montage of stills from a movie you loved but can't remember very well.
I love this song too, especially because it's slow-quick-slow phrasing makes it a challenge to learn off by heart. I'd love to be driving through Texas with this on the CD player...and (preferably) Dennis Quaid in the passenger seat!
I read an interview wherein Kristin said that this was her attempt to write a commercial pop song for the radio - she hates the song. Personally, I like it. I first heard it while living in North Carolina - it brought back fond memories of backpacking in the Southwest.