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Scottsdale (A Blood Orange Sky)

from Incidentally by David Roos

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If you stay in the desert, the desert will own you.

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I was a weedy white boy living in Scottsdale
Thrown up in the desert from the belly of a whale
10 speed tire on a frying pan subdivision sidewalk
Banana seat boy scout, brave and loyal

Blood orange sky in the middle of winter
A blood orange guy with a mouthful of cactus splinters

One year my mom got work with the Navajo nation
So I left to go to school on the reservation
In Scottsdale I thought I was hip
In Scottsdale I thought that I was cool
I was all but invisible, to these kids at my new high school

Tried to copy their walk, learn the lingo
Tried to imagine myself as something more
Than an uptight, milk-fed nervous gringo
I was looking for a cure, some kind of miracle eraser
In the passenger seat of mom’s powder blue AMC Pacer

I was a weedy white boy from Scottsdale
Weedy white boy from Scottsdale
Weedy white boy from Scottsdale
Weedy white boy

Blood orange sky in the middle of winter
A blood orange guy with a mouthful of cactus splinters

If you stay in the desert, the desert will own you
Til you’re a weedy old man
Vacuuming his front yard
In suburban Arizona

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from Incidentally, released October 1, 2010

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