Colorado (bill And Bonnie Crane)

Dory Previn

Bill and Bonnie Crane


Did so much uncut cocaine


They put the light out in their brains


Where the purgatory flows


On the great American plains


Of Colorado


Bill and Bonnie Crane


Went for ice instead of fire


And they called the man a liar


Yeah, the Mexican supplier


When he warned them fire and snow were all the same


Colorado


Atomic annihiliation lays you low as lead


Complete extermination like the ovens


where their mamas and their daddies went to join the other dead


So they put the pilot light out in their head


And they traded up the oven for a freezer like I said


And they burned the white instead of holocaustic red


In Colorado


Bill and Bonnie Crane


Did a few too many grains


Now a vision haunts the plains


It's the beacon of their brains


In Colorado


Yeah they took too many grains


But their pilot light remains


Abandoned, with the purple torrid flames


On the great American plains


Of Colorado