Desert Song

I listened to this properly for the first time even though I have had it for ages, whilst not recorded to the highest standard it is an incredibly touching song both in performace and meaning.

Made me think about what we are all waiting for, the wars and tragedies that happen and we just stand with our jaws dropped waiting for another country's government to save us or in the case of the religious wars/armies/terrorists, for their god to come to their aid and prove them righteous.

Desert Song MCR
We hold in our hearts the sword and the faith
Swelled up from the rain clouds, move like a wraith
Well after all, we'll lie another day
And through it
find some other way
To carry on through cartilage and fluid
And did you come to stare, or wash away the blood?

Well tonight, well tonight
Will it ever come?
Spend the rest of your days
Rocking out just for the dead
Well tonight
Will it ever come?
I can see you awake anytime, in my head

Did we all fall down? [x4]
From the lights to the pavement
From the van to the floor
From backstage to the doctor
From the Earth to the morgue
Morgue, morgue, morgue

Well tonight
Will it ever come?
Spend the rest of your days Rocking out just for the dead
Well tonight Will it ever come?
I can see you awake anytime in my head

All fall down
Well after all...


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We look about for somebody’s face
Eyes dart about for anybody’s face
Someone to save us, take the pain away
Uncertainty and loneliness in the dark
But as we trip and fall we are still not
Braced for impact, a tragedy waiting to happen
Millions fall waiting to be dusted off by a saviour
But only we can save ourselves
Only I can save myself.

Wont you save me, if I just believe enough
If I choose to believe in you?
Can you choose to believe?

You have so many faces,
Yet none have I seen
And as they pray to you, deepest wishes
So vulnerable, unprepared for it all
And we will trip and fall, still not
braced for impact, tragedy on every channel
millions watch as their waiting to be dusted off by a saviour
but only we can save ourselves
only I can save myself.

Wont you save me, if I just believe enough
If I choose to believe in you?
Can you choose to believe?
Turn blind eyes to the evidence
And remember faith once misplaced
Recapture lost innocence
Shut my eyes to return to the place

Where I tripped and fell not braced for impact
Sitting speechless on my knees wont wait to be saved
as only we can save ourselves
Only I can save myself