56.Tucson, Arizona(Gazette)
Tucson, Arizona rising in the heat like a mirage
Tony keeps his Chevy like a virgin locked in his garage
He brings it out at midnight and cruises down the empty
boulevards
And he prowls the darkened alleys that snake between the city's
thirsty yards
The lonely desert skies reflect the anger in his eyes and it is
dawn
His father died of drinking and left five children sinking with
his mom
His older brother Bobby never made it back from Viet Nam
With high school well behind him he lives at home and works this
shitty job
And he thinks his '60 Chevy is the only true amigo that he's got
His heart is filled with sadness and his soul is like some ugly
vacant lot
Mary Estelle Hanna came out from Louisiana for the sun
A deal gone bad in Dallas left her burned and broken on the run
To make the rent and groceries she takes this job at
three-fifteen an hour
Serving shots of whiskey and tequila in some smoky red-neck bar
And she dreams some day she'll make her way to L.A. and become a
movie star
Tony saw her working, he swallowed hard and asked her for a date
Mary laughed and answered; I would but every night I'm working
late
He said he had some cocaine that she could have if she'd just
ride along
She said; What the hell, I may as well, I haven't had no fun in
so damn long
He picked her up at closing time they pulled out on the road and
they were gone
Tony's mom got frantic when she found her son had not come home
Mary's roommate panicked and called the sheriff from a public
phone
They asked her lots of questions, She tried her best to tell
them what she saw
And late that night they found poor Mary lying in some narrow,
dusty draw
And the coroner reported that she hadn't been deceased for very
long
Two weeks on they found it buried to the windshield in the sand
There inside lay Tony with a small revolver in his hand
The papers simply stated it must have been the drugs that drove
him mad
And the neighbors speculated what could make a good boy go so
bad
Well, it might have been the desert heat
It might have been the home he never had
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