The sun on the maples is like an indelible stain Happy red pinevarmints must be raising Cain And here out west the blazes sketch a frightful domain Maybe them waxwings will come back again From a lonely burnt out shanty in the morning I can tell The fog is lifting off the chapparal Where the solitary lion and the toyon dwell Those Channel Islands cast a haunting spell Like a winter's freeze or a vernal breeze that blows forever more Friends and neighbors always at the door And just like sandy shorelines that vanish in the storm They don't come around here anymore Now, the annual migrations are as solid as your word Too many promises becomes absurd But my faith may be forever shattered if not for Just one more visit from that spectacled bird Like a winter's freeze or a vernal breeze that blows forever more Friends and neighbors always at the door And just like sandy shorelines that vanish in the storm They don't come around here anymore They don't come around here anymore They don't come around here anymore They don't come around here anymore They don't come around here anymore They don't come around here anymore They don't come around here anymore