Dan Fogelberg - Tucson Arizona

El cantante y compositor Dan Fogelberg (13 de Agosto de 1951 - 16 de Diciembre de 2007) es el creador de la preciosa canción, Tucson, Arizona. Un tema que narra la historia de un joven llamado Tony, y la cual, sin ánimos de exculpar o excusar, nos enseña que a veces es necesario escarbar en el fondo para encontrar cuales son las razones o motivos que llevan a muchas personas a actuar como lo hacen.

La historia de Tony no es simple. Cuando era pequeño su hermano mayor falleció en Vietnam, y su padre murió debido al alcohol dejándolo de la noche a la mañana botado junto a su madre y hermanos. Asi que ese vacio y tristeza en su corazón lo refleja junto a su único amigo de verdad, un chevy del año 60 con el que sale cada noche a descargarse y recorrer la desértica ciudad de Tucson.

Un día conoce a una mesera proveniente de Dallas. Una chica llamada Mary Estelle que trae consigo el sueño de llegar a hollywood y dejar de ser pobre. Tony saca fuerzas y la invita a salir, pero ella se niega debido al pesado trabajo. Sin embargo, cuando el joven le ofrece cocaina, ella lo piensa mejor y acepta, segun ella, para olvidarse del duro ajetreo y falta de diversión.

Esa misma noche la madre de Tony empieza a preocuparse por la ausencia de su hijo y asi también la compañera de cuarto de Mary. Pronto se da aviso a la policia y comienza una búsqueda que termina con el descubrimiento del cuerpo inerte de la joven a un lado del camino. Dos semanas más tarde, Tony es encontrado dentro de su auto con un revolver en la mano, lo que luego sería tomado como suicidio por efectos de las drogas.

Es entonces como los consternados vecinos comienzan a especular que habrá provocado a un niño tan bueno convertirse en alguien tan malo. Quizás pudo ser el intenso calor de Arizona, o tal vez el hogar que Tony nunca pudo llegar a tener.

Letras / Lyrics

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 broke and on the run
To make the rent and groceries
she takes this job at $3.15 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
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
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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