The Desert Song Lyrics

The soft blush of evening Returns to the folded hills The sky rains magenta In praise of the shepherd's skills The lion lies down beside the lamb At peace in the holy ground. The ...Read Full Lyrics

Row upon row Of drab colourless houses Bowing low Before high rise blocks Varicosed housewives With sweaty armpits Scrimping and scrubbing Their husbands' socks A limp polluted fla...Read Full Lyrics

This is the last resort You'll ever know The old straight track The long way back One more familiar face has gone Will you miss me I doubt it There are many more At the last resor...Read Full Lyrics

The signpost stands where the crossways meet There's but one road to the journey's end The wanderer bent with his heavy load Is waiting for a friend. The sun sinks slowly behind t...Read Full Lyrics

While seasons change in timely way The salt sea ever flows Where open moors lie cold and bleak A single flower grows. Though winter snows fall deep and long The flower grows the w...Read Full Lyrics

The plain stretched out before me as far as the slate grey sky I told her I was leaving with the migrant birds to fly I said she might expect me with the coming of the spring When ...Read Full Lyrics

I made a sideways motion Turning a new leaf The single minded miner's girl Was there to share my grief I shivered in the butter wind Three times the cockerel crowed I waited for th...Read Full Lyrics

It was early in the morning And our ship was still at sea, With a lifetime far behind us we were free. We had strong hearts and a faith In our good Lord's guiding hands; The mist b...Read Full Lyrics

The heavy air was scented by The disappointed flowers The weatherman had promised them Warm soft summer showers They bowed their weary heads Resigned to wait a few more hours And w...Read Full Lyrics

The watchers on the hillside stand in silence As the dawn appears Then they gather to their horses in an instant As a sunshaft sears Through the morning mist which hangs low in the...Read Full Lyrics