In the evening look to the desert sky And you will hear them lonesome coyotes cry And you will see me searching the cracked earth For what will remind me of a lost little girl
She and I once found it all lit up by the moon So bold and fragile my baby's wedding boon But like those petals we were pulled apart So I took my baby to the desert where I broke her little heart
Where are you my desert rose? I will find you No one out here knows where you grow but I will find you Where are you my desert rose? Rose desert rose
Now when I wake up my body is drenched in sweat And I hear her voice call out from the desert heat So I go searching' for what I'm afraid to find A little rose there growing' out of the ground where my baby laid down and died
Now when I wake up my body is drenched in sweat And I hear her voice call out from the desert heat And I go searching' for what I’m afraid to find A little rose there growing' out of the ground where my baby laid down and died