Homeland

I've spent more than half my life looking for the time
To go back to my homeland and once again climb
Up the side of a sand dune by Half Moon Bay
Where I'd run to the edge and I'd just fly away.

Now the desert keeps calling me and I don't know why
It's just a big sandbox beneath a big sky
I have tried to explain it to my wife and kids and friends
But it takes a desert rat to understand

CHORUS:
That when I'm standin' by the sea
There's a place I long to be
I'm kickin' off my sandals
And I walk along the beach
'Cause when there's sand between my toes
Then I know it's time to go
Back across the desert to my home.

People here are unaware how the people over there
Can be perfectly adjusted when the sand blows in their hair
But the desert sky at night might be the world's most perfect sight
And theres no contamination in the air.

Now when I'm standin' by the sea
There's a place I long to be
I'm kickin' off my sandals
And I walk along the beach
'Cause when there's sand between my toes
Then I know it's time to go
Back across the desert to my home.

Seems no matter where I stay theres a part of me today
That would give a million dollars to go back again and play
Hiding out among the rocks, with the camels and the fox
And hear the faithful called again to pray.

(Chorus)
Back across the desert
To the only homeland I have ever known,
Back across the desert to my home.