"The Desert" genre: Symphonic Electronica
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	Middle Eastern influenced power electronica/world music
	CD: Beasts of War Credits: Lyrics & Music: DC Patterson, Vocals: A Parler, Guitar & Vocals: K Dixon, Djembe: Josh
	Story Behind the Song Only God can bring life to the desert in your soul. Die to your ideology and your works and let him sweep away the sand. My end is God's beginning. Lyrics Worshipped the moon, but not the Son Didn't see you, just the things that you'd done I've been a soldier, of devotion My life is empty of all emotion Head in the sand, face on the earth Cursing my flesh, my lack of worth Hidden from the truth by my rhetoric and deeds There's a desert in my soul and a craving I can't feed So please release me from the belly of this beast My life is a wasteland and I need release ____ Chorus When your rains come down And my desert's washed away When your rains come down And bring life unto this clay When your rains come down Your promises fulfilling When your rains come down My end is your beginning _____ Hated for you, but never knew love Whent to battle for you, thought you'd watch from above But you tried to be closer, offered a home in my heart I missed all your signs, we grew further apart Emptyness came, like sand creeping in I'm overrun, let my dying begin It's the way I was born, the life of my people My teachers convinced me that none were our equal Yet for all my persistance, and all my perfection My spirit has died, I live in dejection _____ Chorus _____ Discovered the truth, that my works were death I needed rebirth form the life in your breath I screamed for salvation, I pleaded for life Your words cut through me like a two edged knife My false religion, my self delusion It's all swept away, an end to confusion And now I'm prepared to give more than my all Bring this freedom to others, is my life's call _____ Chorus _____ Lyrics and song copyright 2002 D Patterson/HWY316

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