It was Cinco de Mayo
Pillow case on his head
No more breathing time

An ambulance sped
It sped round every corner
Calling out his name


Shot a rabbit from the back seat window
Sat and watched in the summer corn row

Ate icecream in a desert dream
Got love in father seeing you
Too hot inside to hot outside

Lazy days when you said just go for a ride
We'll sail on Spirit Lake,
Me, my pappy, and his lemonade


Tim and tina were my parents' names
They got engaged they were inflamed

Seduced by the lie of butterflies
How they shimmer, how they glimmer
Those butterflies


We seven kids, we almost died
Nearly put to death

But lightning strike
Instead there was hot pink
Flashes in the sky

We climb the rocks in snowing rain
In search of magic power


To heal our mother's pain

Shot a rabbit from the back seat window

Sat and watched in the summer corn row
Ate icecream in a desert dream
Got love in father seeing you

Too hot inside to hot outside
Lazy days when you said just go for a ride
We'll sail on Spirit Lake,

Me, my pappy, and his lemonade