• Verbena
• The Church
• Damien Jurado
• Bulldozer
• Throwing Muses
• Trespassers William
• Monty Are I
• Lycia
• Dead Nature
• Church

I'm in love with the size of a desert
Never seen it but I'd love to kiss a cactus
Got my hands on a piece of the good earth
Both my hands up inside of a new world
It's exactly by the pound
I do I do, I would never [unverified]
This excitements got me down
I do I do
Desert grows to the size of a fever
Desert smiles at the feet of a new boy
Desert gets everything it ever wanted
I'm in hate with the size of a desert
This excitements got me down
I do I do, I would never do it [unverified]
This excitements got me down
I do I do
I'm in love with the size of a desert
Never seen it but id love to kiss a cactus
Got my hands on a piece of the good earth
Both my hands up inside of a new world
This excitements got me down
I do I do, I would never do it [unverified]
It's exactly by the pound
I do I do, I would never leave now [unverified]
This excitements got me down
I do I do, I would never leave now [unverified]
I do I do, it's exactly by the pound

I, I am the stranger this time around
You, you are the changeless sounds of sand
I could be here forever riding this death
You, you are the distance, my clown
I fall down in the sun
I become everyone who ever walked this way
Where the desolate places meet the oases
Empty spaces of today
I, I am the journey into the haze
You, you are the hill of yesterdays
I, I am the pulse of the heat
You, you are the name of every man that I meet

Tell me when tomorrow comes
I'll be the first to ride
Start the car and honk the horn
I'll be right outside
Pour a drink and open wide
I have things to tell
I have seen the brighter side
Of the roads that lead to Hell
Yesterday is miles away
You'll miss it if you blink
I found my salvation in
The places where you drink
You can say you're on my side
I know that's a lie
'Cause given the chance you'd stab my back
And leave me here to die
Just give me the keys tonight
I'm happy when I drive
Revenge is a perfect word
For what I have in mind
Desert lives bring deserted lives
I know from first hand
We're moved around like circus clowns

The army always pretended to take
The men to subject to their rule
The law and the policy always denied freedom
You've got no choice
You cannot refuse you cannot escape
'Cause jail knocks at your door
They won't wait a minute handcuffs are ready
And a cell is waiting for you
Don't serve the army - bastards
They'll lose the war - we don't care
Don't love your country - it kills you
Try to survive - desert!
The national hymn has been badly composed
For the crowd of the idiots and turds
It sounds disgusting it makes me feel
Ashamed to be born in this land
But if I think outside it's the same
I'm also ashamed to be a man
Slave of my country slave of the world
I'd better cut off my balls
Don't serve the army - bastards
They'll lose the war - we don't care
Don't love your country - it kills you

( Elaine Adamedes )
Dying in the desert he is dreaming of the water down the bathroom drain,
Thinking of the oceans and the rain.
What are you doing with your time?
He's using it to elongate his mind (elongate his mind)
It moves (and stretches with the curves and lines) and it gives
Tongue is made of paper sickly whitish and his eyes no longer see the
light.
Language has been stripped of him for good.
Slowly he seems to sidestep time
and using it he elongates his mind (elongates his mind)
It moves and gives
Miles and miles of body then he's tiny just a grain then he exists no
more
Funeral tears that might have saved his life
Squeezing he slips to ride with time
And using it he elongates his mind (elongates his mind)

My feet are trembling alone
With the serpentine skins on the floor
And while I sleep, will you send me a thought?
While I lean, could you build me a rock?
Will you pretend you're my home?
Touch my lips, are they too blue?
Thirsty from never tasting you
And with the wind and the dark and the sand, these evenings are cold
And are you sleeping or can you give me a shawl?
Or pretend you're my home
Finally you tuck me in
Don't feel warm, don't know where I am
And you lean into my mouth and say, "I'm alone"
And I know your heart is a hole but your body's so close
I can pretend that I'm home
Empty as a hole but it feels so warm
This isn't home but somehow it's gold
Empty as a hole but it feels so warm
This isn't home but somehow it is gold

She sends a message, scary communication
She never speaks a word, and we take from what we see
It's so sad to say she's got obligations
The thought of leaving deserts, it kills the honesty
Spread the disease (We take from what we see)
We're down on our knees (it kills the honesty)
Search for the answers
But you fill our heads with lies
It's just not right, you ran out of time
Standing with your back to the river's edge
Only when it's dried, would you flee for your life
Even with your back to the river, back to the river?
Got the advantage of a blood-thirsty nation
She never speaks a word, and we take from what we see
It's so sad it makes for good conversation
The talk of leaving deserts, it kills the honesty
Search for the answers
But you fill our heads with lies
It's just not right, you ran out of time
Standing with your back to the river's edge
Only when it's dried, would you flee for your life
Even with your back to the river, back to the river?
It's just not right, you ran out of time
Standing with your back to the river's edge
Only when it's dried, would you flee for your life
Even with your back to the river, back to the river?
So you know, now it's broke
Find your own miracle
Because you're chocking on your alibis
Now you know that it's broke
Find your own miracle
Because you filled our heads with lies
It's just not right, you ran out of time
Standing with your back to the river's edge
Only when it's dried, would you flee for your life
Even with your back to the river, back to the river?
It's just not right, you ran out of time
Standing with your back to the river's edge
Only when it's dried, would you flee for your life
Even with your back to the river, back to the river?
Back to the river, back to the river

I reflect everything, I percieve it all
I surmise just everything, I desire nothing
I need to back to the desert
so I can feel new again
I need to go back to the desert
so I can feel fresh again
don't care about anything
don't care about everything, anything
don't care about anything
except for the desert
and then I climb from this world
and head straight out to the desert
and stand under her brilliant blue
I am cleansed, cleansed by the desert
then isolation builds
and I want to escape from this desert
then desolation burns
and I just want to sin again
HATE, LOVE, HOPE, GREED
LUST, FATE, LOSS, NEED
GRIEF, TRUST, TRUTH, LIES
PAIN, WANT, DAYS, TIME

No one can see him
No hands can help him
Sand's his only friend
In this desert land
He knows the path's long
But he has to be strong
Got no food, no beverage
And he can't find a trace
He's in the middle of nowhere
He moves himself to another place
Hopeful to find another face
The visions in his head...
The hot sun makes him mad
As he's walking 'cross the sands
Now he thinks it never ends...
He thinks it can't get any worse
But he feels a sand storm will approach
He watches vultures 'bove his head
Waiting to feed on his flesh...
His strenght has been drained
He fell almost slain
Lying down on his grave
He lost the hope of being saved
No one could see him
No hands could help him
He could not return home
He knows he won't last long
He's in the middle of nowhere
He moves himself to another place
Where everything's glory and grace

I, I am the stranger this time around
You, you are the changeless sounds of sand
I could be here forever riding this death
You, you are the distance, my clown
I fall down in the sun
I become everyone who ever walked this way
Where the desolate places meet the oases
Empty spaces of today
I, I am the journey into the haze
You, you are the hill of yesterdays
I, I am the pulse of the heat