Right On Time

Well I've never seen a sky
As flat as this one
As flat as the brown earth
Beneath our feet
I've never seen a horizon
As dim as this one
It's a hundred and ten in the street

And it's summer time again
In southern California
As fabled as any land ever known
Inside this house
With bars on the window
We don't get shown
The rest of the world

Here come the rain birds
Here come the rain birds
Here come the rain birds
Right on time

Well out here
There's a riot waiting to happen
A whole lot of people
That will be hurt
There's just too many of us
Thrown together
On this
Seven square miles of dirt

Inside this house
It's cool and dark
We keep the lights off cause they
They hurt our eyes
And out in the backyard
The sun bakes the earth
Out by the old garage

Here come the rain birds
Here come the rain birds
Here come the rain birds
Right on time

Here come the rain birds
(Here come the rain birds)
Here come the rain birds
(Here come the rain birds)
Here come the rain birds
Right on time
(Right on time)
Right on time
(Right on time)