A weary wayfaring stranger

Another fool full of wanderlust on a lost highway

Whose been down in the valley of broken dreams and sorrows

Empty as echoes

I left my life in the city

Had enough of the siren's wail and the stale street lights

So I heeded the call of the velvet mesquite and the coyote's cry

Where the river of time flow

To rest my spirit a while

In the moon desert shadows

I'm headed out to the basin

Weathered, withered and parched from the dust blowin' in my face

To linger like the smell of the sage and dance like the wild rose

Where the warm wind blows

I can still see you smile

In the moon desert shadows

Comin' up on the sunset now

Electric crimson spillin' out like a bleeding heart

Wonderin' where you are

I think of you as the fire light dies

A fading light as the western sky in the deepening dark

Gives way to the stars

It's like the old saying goes

We're only here for a while

In the moon desert shadows

In the moon desert shadows

In the moon desert shadows