The Desert of My Heart

This is a very unusual lyric. Most of my lyrics are country songs, ballads, pop, even blues, but I woke up one morning with a very mideastern drumbeat in my head, "TUM tata tatata tata ta TUM." The lyrics below followed. Perhaps if you read it and think of music from a Sinbad movie or a slow belly dance with finger cymbols, you can hear what I hear when I read it.

The Desert of My Heart © 2008 Steve Anthony All rights reserved.

[V1]

From the desert of my heart the longing comes.

I've been too long, here in the burning sun.

The water of your love is my goal;

so I can cool the arid depths within my soul.

The vision that is you is my mirage.

It fills my mind and paints a vast montage;

of memories we shared, that now are torn apart,

emblazoned, on the desert of my heart.

[Refrain]

I need you

I need you

I need you

To rescue me from the desert of my heart.

[V2]

From the land of a thousand burning, blazing suns,

the yearning never stops when evening comes.

The water of your love is what I need,

to stop this burning desire inside of me.

The loveliness of you is my mirage.

It fills my mind and paints a vast montage;

of memories we shared, that now are torn apart,

emblazoned on the desert of my heart.

[Refrain]

I need you.

I need you.

I need you.

To rescue me from the desert of my heart.

[Tag]

Come rescue me, from the desert of my heart.