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
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
She told him she was leaving 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
Looks like orange is turning blue
It all looks good on paper until 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
If I believed in hell I would say that it’s freezing over
Nothing makes sense when no one remembers the rules
Orange is turning blue