"The Desert Was Better" genre: World Fusion
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	A grand epic, evoking a spaghetti Western taking place in Central Scotland, with a death-dealing guitar solo.
	MP3.com CD: The Ballad of Bob Dylan - buy it! Credits: Composed: Norman Lamont . Arranged: Dave Watson. All instruments: Dave Watson, except Guitar solo: Gil Murray, strings: Norman Lamont
	Story Behind the Song This song was dictated to me by a heavenly (I hope) presence on the way to Haymarket Station after work one day. I had to sit in the station waiting room to write it down. It seems to concern someone from a North African or Iberian country coming to Scotland and getting involved in petty crime or journalism (no strangers to each other). No citizens of Linlithgow were injured in the making of this song. The song was featured on a Computer Music magazine cover CD, reaching a huge world-wide audience (one of whom wrote to me). Lyrics I took a plane to a faraway country I knew at once I had made a mistake Something in the tired air Cut me off from my family No matter how lonely the desert The desert was better than this.

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