Desert Stars
Desert Stars

I fell in love on an island in a stream
in the warm late summer’s glow,
but it passed like the ashes of a dream.
On an island, on an island,
it’s easy come, easy go.

Then I fell in love in a castle in the sky
in the first falling of the snow,
but it left me and did not tell me why.
In a castle, in a castle,
I was cold, as a stone.

I spent all those years
on the trail of privateers
who took captive my heart.
And too much time
in a playhouse learning rhymes
only to play one bit part.

Instrumental

Then I fell in love in the corner of your room
in the spring right before the rain
and the desert stars began to bloom.
In the corner, in your corner,
I found all love could contain.

Yes, the desert stars began to bloom.
In a corner, in your corner,
I found all love could contain.