
Date of issue: 10.11.2009
Song language: English
Desert of Rain live 1994 |
Life in the desert of rain |
We are the people who live on this plain |
Waking and sleeping we wander alone |
Through the wind, the sand and the stones |
And the rain flashes glimmers of gold |
To pleasure our eyes in the cold |
No long — ago songs to poison our souls |
And tomorrow never unfolds |
Here are no paintings |
Here spin no tales |
Here lives no poet |
There’s no hiding ourselves |
Hard are the flints of our hearts |
They link us together and keep us apart |
My path crossed yours in the dark |
We touched and both saw the spark |
And the spark grew to flame and white heat |
As our spirits awoke to a thundering beat |
And the drum sings the language of time |
Where your rivers flow into mine |
(a glow is in the desert of rain) |
Here is a painting |
Here spins a tale |
Here is a poem |
Here’s a shelter for us You move on, you move on… |
Beyond the horizon you’re gone |
And the rain flashes glimmers of gold |
But I’m cold, i’m freezing cold |
And cold is the blade that cuts deep |
From the shadows of you to my waking sleep |
And the drum says a tale has been born |
While i live like a flame in a storm |
You’ll be the painting |
You’ll be the tale |
You’ll be the poem |
I will tell to myself |
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Artist lyrics: Andreas Vollenweider
Artist lyrics: Eliza Gilkyson