Desert Song Songtext
von Do-Ré-Mi

Mother hears a sigh across the ocean
Thirteen thousand miles away
Looking for a twister in the desert
Cutting where there shouldn′t be

Red dirt and dust behind their eyes
A blinding light
They set the fences blazing
Make fire out of the night
Spinning out clouds for the naked day

Summer and this heat will last forever
Burn, never go away
Crawling from the shelter of the evening
Beaming down upon the day

And once in forty days and nights
The strangers came
They took the boys away
She watched them leave on a Red Cross plane
Swallow back round and back again


No one here knows who to blame
Their slimy faces and their open-handed flame
And all the headlines say
"Well, isn't it a shame?"
Just one more desert song

Sister casts an eye to the horizon
Fifteen hundred miles away
Listen for the sound of mothers calling
Every night and every day

She stands on vigil at the rock
She seldom sleeps
The sun sends mercy down
And dries the tears that mother weeps
Cast in shadows that run down deep

No one here knows who to blame
Their slimy faces and their open-handed flame
And all the headlines say
"Well, isn′t it a shame?"
Just one more desert song again