Monsoon Season

Grew up in the desert, you love when it rains

You forget how to drive 'til you hydroplane

Over rainbows reflected in the oil stains

Short-lived as the monsoon months

With sawtooth horizons in every direction

And swimming pools as deep as the poolman's reflections

On whether to leave or to keep counting blessings

For now just pack up the truck

Let the freeway carry you and the doubt you hold

Let the street signs answer you when the rain clouds don't

Let the light refracted in the dust

Of a sunset teach your heart to trust

That the questions are all you need to know

Lying in the dark and lost in tomorrow

You're trying to bargain with what is just borrowed

It's kicking the pricks of the backyard saguaro

That'll outlive us all one day

'Cause this town is a grid that goes on pretending

That nothing is hidden as the canyon goes bending

'Round a river that's thin but never relenting

It's always finding a way

So let the river carry you past the fake grass lawns

Let the wind deliver you from these safe tract homes

Let the thunder leave you insecure

As the flash floods prove there's more to learn

But the questions are all you need to know

And the kids in the parking lot are trying to escape

On the wings of a party drug that gives only to take

As coyotes in a desert wash jump in on the refrain

They are screaming out another song but saying the same thing

They are screaming out another song but saying the same thing

So let the monsoon carry you to the summer's close

Let the dawn moon rise for you when your spirit won't

May you touch the light we cannot see

Just enough to let your heart believe

That the questions are all you need to know

Yes, the questions, they are all you need to know