Mexico
-- James Taylor
Way down here you need a reason to move
Feel a fool running your stateside games
Lose your load, leave your mind behind Baby James
Oh, Mexico
It sounds so simple, I just got to go
The sun's so hot I forgot to go home
Guess I'll have to go now
Americano got the sleepy eye
But his body's still shaking like a live wire
Sleepy señorita with the eyes on fire
Oh, Mexico
It sounds so sweet with the sun sinking low
The moon's so bright like to light up the night
Make everything all right
Baby's hungry and the money's all gone
The folks back home don't want to talk on the phone
She gets a long letter, sends back a postcard
Times are hard
Oh, down in Mexico
I've never really been so I don't really know
Oh, Mexico
I guess I'll have to go
Oh, Mexico
I've never really been but I'd sure like to go
Oh, Mexico
I guess I'll have to go now
Talking 'bout in Mexico (Mexico)
In a honky tonk down in Mexico
Oh, Mexico
Mexico, Mexico
Oh, Mexico
Mexico, Mexico
Oh, Mexico
Mexico, Mexico
oh mexico those first nights in the rented house built into the barranca at the top of a steep hill a dead end tecamachalco mexico city i tried to fall asleep while the radio played "boogie nights" and "you've got a friend" imagining a thousand wordless connections and disconnections "the future" paused at the edge of my real life as bone-white moonlight poured over the house above us down the sheer yard wall into my room spilled over my bed my half formed body slid into me with each breath cold sharp wide untranslatable
Suggested soundtrack: Pop radio from your 13th year.
