[Verse 1] Nature’s own X-ray Looking through the stone Seeing what we carried Seeing what we left alone The road cuts through the hillside The dust fills every track You can keep on driving But the land remembers that [Chorus] Nothing goes unseen out here Nothing disappears The ones who never made it through Are still among us here They joined the wind and weather The roots beneath the rain Nothing goes unseen out here The desert keeps their names [Verse 2] There’s a shadow on the ridgeline Standing thin against the white I thought it was a person Till I passed it in the light Some things look different When you’re trying to get away The sun comes through like an X-ray And shows you what remains [Chorus] Nothing goes unseen out here Nothing disappears The ones who never made it through Are still among us here They joined the wind and weather The roots beneath the rain Nothing goes unseen out here The desert keeps their names [Instrumental: spacious, sustained melodic guitar notes] [Bridge] We leave a little of ourselves In every place we’ve been The ground takes what it’s given And lets the living in I can’t tell you every story Or where each journey ends But I hear them when the wind comes up And falls away again [Final Chorus] Nothing goes unseen out here Nothing disappears The ones who never made it through Are still among us here They joined the wind and weather The roots beneath the rain Nothing goes unseen out here The desert keeps their names [Outro: return to the opening guitar figure; let the final note fade]
