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 hundred and ten in the street And it's summer time again In southern California As fabled as any land ever known And inside this house With bars on the window We won'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 They will be hurt There's just too many of us Thrown together On the seven square miles of dirt Inside this house It's cool and dark We keep the lights off 'Cause it, it hurt our eyes And out in the backyard 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