Desert High

The desert dust fills your eyes The rattlesnake shake takes you by surprise The coyotes sing in the calm of night The cactus water goes down like fire The City of Angels ain't too far from here And when I need some sin, it's always near The Caliente warms my bones And the Valley of Death is a skeleton's home The desert toad takes me for a ride The Lizard King's always by my side The hawk and eagle just wanna fly But the horizon's hot, and the air is dry The venom stings from the scorpion And the owl watches where I've been My lips are cracked from the howlin' wind I need to quench my thirst and heal my skin The mountains like paintings, the Joshua Tree Gram died in room eight and left it all to Keith Just a couple of miles from the Salton Sea But a little closer to heaven for someone like me