I've never seen a sky   As flat as this one   As flat as the brown earth   Beneath our feet      I've never seen a horizon   As dim as this one   It's hundred and ten in the street      And it's summer time again   In southern California   As fabled as any land ever known      And inside this house   With bars on the window   We won't get shown   The rest of the world      Here come the rain birds   Here come the rain birds   Here come the rain birds   Right on time      Well, out here, there's a   Riot waiting to happen   A whole lot of people   They will be hurt      There's just too many of us   Thrown together   On the seven square miles of dirt      Inside this house   It's cool and dark   We keep the lights off   'Cause it, it hurt our eyes      And out in the backyard   Sun bakes the earth   Out by the old garage      Here come the rain birds   Here come the rain birds   Here come the rain birds   Right on time      Here come the rain birds   Here come the rain birds   Here come the rain birds   Here come the rain birds      Here come the rain birds   Right on time, right on time   Right on time, right on time