The Salton Sea
JT Moring
© 2005

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In a two-room trailer by the Salton Sea
I loved her and she loved me
and we'd walk in the evening in the desert breeze
down by the Salton Sea

I worked all day in the body shop
and she worked nights in the roach motel
and we went into town when we needed to shop
and the summer sun was hot as hell
I loved her and she loved me
in the trailer park by the Salton Sea

She painted pictures all in blue
and wrote poetry about the desert wind
while I read books about going to the moon
and drank a little whiskey now and again
and everything seemed fine to me
in the trailer park by the Salton Sea

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I got drunk and we had a fight
and in the morning she didn't come home
she didn't show up to work that night
and I realized I was all alone
in the very last place I wanted to be
a trailer park by the Salton Sea

I'm heading up toward Bakersfield
doing odd jobs along the way
I don't call no one on the telephone
I don't have nothing I want to say
cause I left everything behind of me
in the trailer park by the Salton Sea

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