Videos of Desert Sands, Vol. 1
Music video · 2:43
Also on Spotify
The words
Lyrics of Desert Sands, Vol. 1
Flash of light in darkest nightNow she's gone without a traceBurning sand in stranger's landNo familiar time or place
And though the gods seem far awayDestiny has not lost its way
Thrust into the burning lightNo way back and no way homeEach soul faces their own nightIn the desert all alone(In the desert all alone)
Not a shadow, not a treeNothing but the endless sandOnly what her soul can seeAs she learns to understand
And though the gods seem far awayDestiny has not lost its way
Thrust into the burning lightNo way back and no way homeEach soul faces their own nightIn the desert all alone(In the desert all alone)
Every footprint in the sandLeads us to where we must stand
Thrust into the burning lightFinding strength we've never knownThrough the shadows of the nightWe'll forge a path to call our own(We'll forge a path to call our own)
This one is an experiment. I had always wondered what it would be like to keep the words exactly as they are and build a completely different song around them.
Here, in Vol. 1, a woman sings them, in a style all of its own. In Vol. 2 a man takes the very same lines into rock. I love how it turned out: the same words, and two songs that could hardly be further apart.
Now hear the other one: Desert Sands, Vol. 2
The raven list
Hear the next song first.
Before release day, with the tale of how it was born.
Mood II
The Desert
Heat, distance, and the sound of going anyway.