Lyrics

I was walking through the desert
And a stranger came from nowhere out of the sun
He was tall and gaunt and dressed in black,
And he had eyes that were on the run.

And I asked him stranger where did you come from
And he said I come from nowhere and I am no one
But I am here to tell you your time has come
We are just prisoners of the sun

Now that the water's gone

Sometimes out on the desert it gets so hot my eyes play tricks
Sometimes out on the desert in the burning swells
It's hard to get a fix.

And I have seen oases I have seen jewelled caravans
I must have seen a hundred promised lands
But I can't face the future if I can't trust my memory
And nothing is as I thought it would be

Now that the water's gone

He said I've hiding places in the darkest parts of hell
For I am a sailor who rides these sandy swells
And the birds of prey were circling like tornadoes on the plain and I thought I felt a single drop of rain

But all the water's gone

I was walking through the desert
And a stranger came from nowhere out of the sun
Out of this molten golden sea of sand and sage
He had eyes that were on the run
And he said You realize now where you came from,
And a moment or a lifetime is the same under the sun
And just as my eyes began to understand
That stranger as he vanished against the burning sands
Said all the water's gone