YOU ALWAYS HAD A DESERT SOUL

A little bird, she sang to me

To tell me that your soul was free

The western mountains called you home

You always had a desert soul

I'm back east where it all began

Where there's pitch pines and white sugar sand

I see you on a mountain road

Colorado's peaks are brushed with snow

And I thought I saw you sitting there

In the moonlight on the beach house stairs 

Your heart wrapped up in holy gold

You held the ocean in your soul

I remember you with the sun in your eyes

The laughing gulls, above us, flying

I have always known your soul

It winds just like a desert road

Your golden skin, it caught the sun

The summer wind blew across the ocean 

Honeysuckle climbed the driftwood poles

Where you and I were ocean souls

You found a road headed for the sun

And though I wish you were not gone 

The western mountains called you home

You always had a desert soul.