Lyrics

So you said you would build me a cabin
In the Mojave desert then would land
Every weekend in your silver helicopter
To cook me a meal and hold my hand

You said we would sleep on the roof deck
Beneath stars that elsewhere can not be seen
You said we would shower in the morning
Outside beneath a Joshua Tree

For food we would cook at a fire pit
Set on a hillside among the rocks and sand
We’d be surrounded by beautiful flowers growing wild
In a landscape almost too good for the eyes

And when you left you would promise to love me
That when you’d sorted out your life you’d come to stay
Forever by my side you weren’t just in it for the ride
You intended to be with me all the way

It is hard now to think I believed you
And on hearing this most folks would surely say
They could have told me at the start I was living in a dream
And this story could end no other way

But for one long winter I waited
I watched the skies change from dark to light
But the only sounds I heard were of a lost coyote
Crying for its mate throughout the night

It is hard now to think I believed you
And on hearing this most folks would surely say
They could have told me at the start I was living in a dream
And this story could end no other way