The Desert
Love Lost in the Desert: Common Holly's Haunting Journey
Lyrics
I went into the desert and I missed him
I ventured into the desert and felt a sense of absence or longing for someone.
Don't know if it was the mountain asking questions
Uncertainty about whether the mountains posed challenging questions during this experience.
I went into the desert and I held him
I entered the desert again and embraced the person I missed.
Through a muddy creek, he was sand pooling in my hands
While crossing a muddy creek, the person held was slipping away like sand through fingers.
And every night the desert sang a love song
The desert, symbolically, sings a love song each night, and there's an internal struggle within the narrator.
And inside my languid body was a fight
Conflict or tension within the narrator's body during the emotional experience in the desert.
And every night I hope that he would come home
Narrator yearns for the person's return every night but realizes it's not the right expectation in daylight.
But by daylight I know it wasn't right
A recognition that the hope for the person's return is unrealistic in the light of day.
The was is drying up underneath the red sunset
The water is disappearing beneath the red sunset, possibly symbolizing the fading of emotions or connection.
And I'm a lizard slinking through the valley of regret
The narrator, feeling regret, is likened to a lizard navigating through a challenging valley.
Oh I'm the wild coyote yelping at the midnight sky
The narrator identifies as a wild coyote, expressing a sense of loneliness and howling at the vast sky.
A lover, forgetting how to love
A lover who is forgetting how to love, perhaps due to the challenges faced in the desert.
The sparrow, how to fly
A sparrow losing the ability to fly, suggesting a sense of constraint or limitation.
Hollow, hollow, when the moon is rising, rising
A repetitive expression of emptiness or hollowness during the rising of the moon.
Lost my footing in the desert canyon
The narrator loses stability in a desert canyon, symbolizing a personal struggle or crisis.
I lost him, and I lost my home
The narrator loses both the person and their home in the desert.
Saw him vanish into the horizon
Witnessing the person vanish into the horizon, leaving the narrator alone.
And there I was, left to be alone
The narrator is left alone in the aftermath of the person's disappearance in the desert.
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