The Desert Lyrics

Desert

Verse 1

Looking up to the sky

The sun burns too hot

Now I look to the ground

The path time forgot

Out to the horizon

No life is seen

Blowing sand and emptiness

No water to gleam

I try to remember what used to be

Did it disappear or did I cease to see?

I've been lost and empty

In a desolate place

Wandering all around

Running a lonely race

Overcome and destroyed

I fall to me knees

Cracked and broken

I don't know who to be

As if an dream

The shades cover my eyes

I remember no more

That which drove me to rise

I try to remember what used to be

Did it disappear or was it lost in me?

To my final breaths

Should I make them last

Another rattle in time

Fading away to the past

Chorus

The desert takes everything from me

It's been too long

I've been here too long

And I can't keep moving on

But the desert won't take this love from me

It's been too long

With me too long

And I will keep holding on

Verse 2

But here in this place

I will dig in the sand

Once was a purpose

Carried in my hand

I will plant this seed

Once given to me

And with a last wish

I pray it grows to feed

All the others who wander in the desert like me

Will they find his place and from the desert be freed?

Return to dust

Going back to the start

It all flashes before

A last will of the heart

Here with nothing left

As I fall to the ground

Close my eyes forever

Suddenly there's a sound

As a drop of rain

Descends from the sky

To soak the sand

Here in the place I lie

All the others who wander in the desert like me

Will they find his place and from the desert be freed?

I opened my eyes

And then I turned to see

From the ground before me

Grows a giving tree

Bridge

Fruitful and tall

And standing strong

All that I needed

Was here all along

Never needed to wait

To hold onto this seed

The place to plant it

Was down on my knees

Filled with joy

Overcome by grace

I look around to see

That trees have replaced

The barren ground

Of all the empty space

Now others are here

At the end of the race