Desert Blues - Cee Cee James

cactus, dry dusty winds

clean blue sky and silence that never ends

miles and miles of open land

my mind takes me back to where I been

I could hear my hunger when coyote sang

I could feel my tears in the desert rain

I could see my life in the endless miles

laid out before me in some well intentioned plan

Hot mid-day sun, burnin’Desert Blues

Black mid-night moon, lonely Desert Blues

Out there in no man’s land, that’s where I found the truth

life lay’n still all around me

full moon shinin’down in the night

knowin’that i had to find the answers

‘cause things in my life wasn’t right

Hot mid-day sun burnin’Desert Blues …

Black mid-night moon, lonely Desert Blues

Way out in no man’s land, when I called out to you

Help me change my ways, teach me how to be true

you see i really didn’t know how to live life clean

I only knew how to play it to benefit me

blind deaf and dumb frontin’insecure pride

that’s when the desert called and opened my selfish eyes

long endless days full of nothing

out there… so it seemed at the time

it took 10 more years of confusion

to finally lay my heart on the line

Hot mid-day sun, oh burnin’Desert Blues …

Black mid-night moon, ah low down lonely Desert Blues

Way out in no man’s land when I called out to you

Help me find my way, teach me how to be true

Hot mid-day sun, yah burnin’Desert Blues, dusty low down Desert Blues

Black mid-night moon, ah lonely Desert Blues, lonely Desert Blues

Way out in no man’s land, when I called out to you

Out there in no man’s land, that’s where I found the truth