The longing just to see your face

The longing for your warm embrace

The longing for your gentle grace

Just kept me up at nights and days

 

I got lost in this surreal tangled maze

You left me here without a trace

I stumbled forward but found no base

My mind went slowly dark in a daze

 

I tried to understand you girl

Saw the ashes of our old love, swirl

The sea shell had just lost its pearl

An empty bed – except one last curl

 

I wrote you letters based on my mind

By now I ask myself: why I was so kind?

You read it all but you’re still blind

Or just too fearful and resigned

 

I wrote you letters from my heart

Described all my feelings like a bard

But your ambivalence still is too hard

Your fear is so strong – love falls apart

 

I lost myself in thoughts of you

In the questions of: how do you do?

My heart and soul went into blue

But that’s the past, so long – long overdue

 

I left the tunnel – I left the bends

I’m sick of fighting for another chance

It seems that this old longing ends

Swept off by your pretend defense

 

Now I’m searching for another place

Now I’m searching for an open space

To find a way out of the maze

To give me shelter just in case

 

Take drugs to erase you from my head

Take drugs to find myself instead

The tambourine man who looks so glad

Asks: who defines what’s good and bad?

 

I follow the rabbit through the sand

And break through into Wonderland

Once we walked there hand in hand

Now I’m sitting here with my oldest friend

 

Potentially someday you will know

How to get tickets to the show

For the festival to which lost souls go

To let their sorrows and pains flow

 

To let their doubts and wisdom grow

And let their warmth and whole love glow

They’re soulmates in a world of snow

I’ll just play for them and me you know

 

So, if you should find a way to go

Into this space where time moves slow

Just follow the whisper of the crow

To the mystic valley way down below

 

Then maybe you’ll be able to show

Your longings to me blow by blow 

‘Cause everyone else here does it so

On this place of longings named – Desolation Row

 

 

Copyright © Lyrics by Andi Knittel