Orange

He met a punk-rock girl at an Agent Orange show in Irvine in 1984
He was miles away from his home in Van Nuys
Where he was hungry all the time
He was always looking for more

They lived together in a duplex near the beach
In Costa Mesa where they grilled outside every night
Watched a lot of cable TV and had a lot of sex
Under a Ronald Reagan night light

They moved to a house in Mission Viejo
When their identical twins were two
She had her tattoos removed
He got a job in middle management
So he could tell someone what to do

It all looks good when the sun is in your eyes
Looks like orange is turning blue
It all looks good on paper until it catches on fire
Seems like orange is turning blue
Yes, it's true

He had that same lame job for 15 years
Managing a Safeway
His wife told him she was sleeping with a woman
That she met at the PTA, right?

She told him she was leaving him in the middle of a party
On their twins' birthday
She said she was leaving him because they had grown apart
And they had both changed so much in so many different ways
Yeah, but really tough
The truth was that she left him because
She would forget what he looked like every day

It all looks good when the sun is in your eyes
Yeah, it looks like orange is turning blue, it's true
It all looks good on paper till it catches on fire
Seems like orange is turning blue
You better believe it's true

He started hanging out with a younger man named Jaden
That he knows from the store
He says it isn't sexual, they talk about football and politics
And how much better things were before

Now they sit in his car for hours after work in the parking lot
They wear their hair in the same way
And Jaden turned him on to that alternative rock
I think it's safe to say people are starting to talk

It all looks good when the sun is in your eyes
Looks like orange is turning blue
It all looks good on paper until it catches on fire
Seems like orange is turning blue

Nothing ever does what it's supposed to do, anymore
I think orange is turning blue
Oh, if I believed in hell, I would say that it's freezing over
Nothing makes sense when no one remembers the rules

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