Ressurection Bay

I met her up in Helena, in the state mental hospital

I was put there by a judge, boys, she was put there by the same

Just one look into her green eyes, Catalina she was all mine

She told me of her paradise, called it Resurrection Bay

We both knew we were cured, no matter about the judges word

On that first day of summer, we made our escape

Running through that June night, with them stars as our only light

She said that every star that falls lands in Resurrection Bay

So me and Catalina, we hitchhiked to Alaska

All through them drunken forests, up that Alcan Highway

Made it down to the Kenai, on the 4th of July

Made love under the exploding sky of Resurrection Bay

But Catalina was a strange girl, not long for this world

Why they’d put her up in Helena, she would not say

She was in love with that water, like a mother to a daughter

I watched her smiling face go under, from the shores of Resurrection Bay

Now I ain’t nothing but a stranger moving south through your country

I‘ve been eating from your orange groves I’ve been sleeping through your days

At night I watch the black sky, see them stars go shooting by

I know that every star that falls lands in Resurrection Bay