Desert Town letra

I hitched a ride to a desert town
(I never planned this trip)
I saw my past in the sun like a tongue
(that slowly dripped)
People faced me with Lazarus eyes
They were red and dazed like fat horse flies
I was lost in twelve directions
I was searching for my own reflection

In a desert town I found
a future old and broke like Roman ruins
I been turned around it's true
The postage past is due
This heat is twisted like a knife

I got the picture but I lost the frame
(Where did it begin)
Thought I was holy but that's not the case
I'm just too tired to sin
Sun glistening like a frightened fist
This latitude doesn't exist

In a desert town I found
Nothing is going to be the way it should
What I thought I lost I could get back
Take the blade and hack my way back to another day

Instant that, instant this, instant that, instant this . . .

In a desert town I found
a future old and broke like Roman ruins
I been turned around it's true
The postage past is due
This heat is twisting like a knife

In a desert town the sound
Whispers like like the women at the well
In this dry high wind I bend
like a cactus in the sand
I'm waiting, waiting for your hand

Jim Carroll - Letras

• (No More) Luxuries
• Barricades
• Black Romance
• Catholic Boy
• City Drops Into the Night
• Crimes of Passion
• Crow
• Dance The Night Away
• Day And Night
• Desert Town
• Differing Touch
• Dry Dreams
• Evangeline
• Falling Down Laughing
• Freddy's Store
• Hairshirt Fracture
• Hold Back the Dream
• I Don't Hear You
• I Want The Angel
• I Write Your Name
• It's Too Late
• Jealous Twin
• Jody
• Junky Man
• Lorraine
• Lorraine (Opening poem)
• Love Crimes
• Low Rider
• Nothing Is True
• People Who Died
• Perfect Water
• Plain Division
• Pools of Mercury
• Rooms
• Still Life
• The Beast Within
• Them
• Three Sisters
• Voices
• What's Number One
• Wicked Gravity
• Work, Not Play