Desert Town Lyrics - Singles - Jim Carroll

I hitched a ride to a desert town 

(I never planned this trip) 

I saw my past in the sun like a tongue 

(that slowly dripped) 

People faced me with lazarus eyes 

They were red and dazed like fat horse flies 

I was lost in twelve directions 

I was searching for my own reflection 

In a desert town I found 

A future old and broke like roman ruins 

I been turned around it's true 

The postage past is due 

This heat is twisted like a knife 

I got the picture but I lost the frame 

(where did it begin) 

Thought I was holy but that's not the case 

I'm just too tired to sin 

Sun glistening like a frightened fist 

This latitude doesn't exist 

In a desert town I found 

Nothing is going to be the way it should 

What I thought I lost I could get back 

Take the blade and hack my way back to another day 

Instant that, instant this, instant that, instant this . . . 

In a desert town I found 

A future old and broke like roman ruins 

I been turned around it's true 

The postage past is due 

This heat is twisting like a knife 

In a desert town the sound 

Whispers like like the women at the well 

In this dry high wind I bend 

Like a cactus in the sand 

I'm waiting, waiting for your hand