Mexican Home

[Verse 1]

Well it got so hot last night, I swear you couldn't hardly breathe

Heat lightning burned the sky like alcohol

I sat on the porch without my shoes and I watched the cars roll by

As the headlights raced to the corner of the kitchen wall

[Chorus]

Mama dear, your boy is here, far across the sea

Waiting for that sacred coal that burns inside of me

And I feel a storm all wet and warm not ten miles away

Approaching my Mexican home

[Guitar and Piano Solos]

[Verse 2]

Oh my God I cried, it's so hot inside you could die in the living room

Take the fan from the window, prop the door back with a broom

Well the cuckoo clock has died of shock and the windows feel no pain

The air's as still as the throttle on a funeral train

[Chorus]

Mama dear, your boy is here, far across the sea

Waiting for that sacred coal that burns inside of me

And I feel a storm all wet and warm not ten miles away

Approaching my Mexican home

[Guitar and Piano Solos]

[Verse 3]

Well, my father died on the porch outside on an August afternoon

I sipped bourbon and cried with a friend by the light of the moon

So it's hurry, hurry, step right up, it's a matter of life or death

Well the sun's going down and the moon's just holding its breath

[Chorus]

Mama dear, your boy is here, far across the sea

Waiting for that sacred coal that burns inside of me

And I feel a storm all wet and warm not ten miles away

Approaching my Mexican home

All approaching my Mexican home

All approaching my Mexican home