The Desert - Common Holly

I went into the desert and I missed him

Don’t know if it was the mountains

Asking questions

I went into the desert and I held him

Through a muddy creek, he

Was sand pooling in my hands

And every night the desert sang a love song

And inside my languid body was a fight

And every night I hoped that he would come home

But by daylight I knew it wasn’t right

The wash is drying up

Underneath the red sunset

And I am a lizard slinking through

The valley of regret

Oh I’m the wild coyote

Yelping at the midnight sky

A lover, forgotten how to love

The sparrow, how to fly

Hollow, hollow when the moon is rising, rising

Lost my footing in the desert canyon

I lost him, and I lost my home

Saw him vanish into the horizon

And there I was, left to be alone

Hollow, hollow when the moon is rising, rising

The wash is drying up

Underneath the red sunset

And I am a lizard slinking through

The valley of regret

Oh I’m the wild coyote

Yelping at the midnight sky

A lover, forgotten how to love

The sparrow, how to fly

The wash is drying up

Underneath the red sunset

And I am a lizard slinking through

The valley of regret

Oh I’m the wild coyote

Yelping at the midnight sky

A lover, forgotten how to love

The sparrow, how to fly

Hollow, hollow when the moon is rising, rising