Joshua Kadison Desert Flower song lyrics

Outside of Albuquerque, about an hour north of there

She's got a house of three little Indians in the middle of nowhere

You wonder where her man went, you wonder if she minds

They've got smiles and healthy tummies, so you guess they're doing fine

She sells jewelry by the roadside, silver beads and things

She can weave a spell upon you with any song she sings

She's a desert flower growing free and wild

Her beauty seems so fragile, fragile as a child

And you want to take her with you, but you know she must remain

So you leave her wishing you could turn yourself into the rain

Turn yourself into the rain, turn yourself into the rain

You leave her wishing you could turn yourself into the rain

Her kids were playing leapfrog, jumping in the sand

I pulled my car off the road and parked beside her stand

She asked where I was going so fast and so alone

I told her how love was something I wasn't sure I'd ever known

She said: 'Maybe you never heard the desert sing her song at night

Or maybe you've just been trying much too hard to get it right'

She's a desert flower growing free and wild

Her beauty seems so fragile, fragile as a child

And you want to take her with you, but you know she must remain

So you leave her wishing you could turn yourself into the rain

Turn yourself into the rain, turn yourself into the rain

You leave her wishing you could turn yourself into the rain

Waving in my rear-view mirror

Then the next thing that I know

Are the broken lines on a long, black highway

Off to another show

She's a desert flower growing free and wild

Her beauty seems so fragile, fragile as a child

And you want to take her with you, but you know she must remain

So you leave her wishing you could turn yourself into the rain

Turn yourself into the rain, turn yourself into the rain

You leave her wishing you could turn yourself into the rain