Whispers In The Desert Nights

[Intro: sparse winding single-note guitar; bass and drums enter under the first lyric] [Verse 1] I hear their voices calling out at night The wind carries them across the sand I stop and listen where the road runs out Like I could reach them if I held out my hand [Verse 2] There are footsteps in the desert That the morning never found And a song from the midnight concerts Still moving through this empty town [Chorus] We are always there Somewhere underneath that sky In the words we left unfinished In the songs that never died When the dark comes rolling in And the stars are all we have I hear you in the distance And we are always there [Verse 3] I drove until the headlights gave me Nothing but the road ahead Then a melody came drifting through And I remembered what you said [Chorus] We are always there Somewhere underneath that sky In the words we left unfinished In the songs that never died When the dark comes rolling in And the stars are all we have I hear you in the distance And we are always there [Instrumental: sustained melodic guitar notes, with silence between phrases] [Bridge] The wind can change the shape of everything And cover every track we made But it can't take away the voices That come back when daylight fades [Final Chorus] We are always there Somewhere underneath that sky In the words we left unfinished In the songs that never died From the footsteps in the desert To the music in the air If you listen in the silence We are always there [Outro: return to the opening single-note guitar figure; let the last note ring]