Desert rose
I’ve been Driving 16 hours on the road
and I’m rolling everything before the border control.
Forgetting all I left behind,
I’m drowning my sorrows in whiskey wine
The sun is burning,
I’m staring down on a crimson sky
Then I saw her on the side of the road,
She came out of the mist
I felt a shiver straight to my bones,
from my boots right to my fist.
I was touched by a desert rose,
back in Nam,
I was kissed by a desert rose
Back in Nam.
We’ve been drinking, you can smell the fumes forming off our breath.
Drunk and stinking, driving in a melting pot of stench
We’re going here & there & back again, so tell your neighbours’ tell your friends,
That we’re coming home
We’re going here & there & back again, so tell your neighbours’ tell your friends to keep our beers cold.
Then she came & took my hand, it sent shivers down my spine, we fell into the sand and then she blew my mind
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Written on December 21, 2018
Submitted by tribeone_b on January 04, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 908 |
Words | 188 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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