Desperation, Part I Lyrics - Singles - Redemption

[m/l van Dyk] 

Peter and Mary, drive cross-country 

Entering Desperation, Nevada 

Red lights flash and their destines changed 

As the patrol car pulls behind them 

Collie Etrangian, arm of the law 

Stops them and searches the back of their car 

There in the trunk, some drugs in a bag 

And they find themselves arrested 

Pulled them over, to the side of the road 

With a body that's bloated and bursting; too old 

"We'll get this sorted out in Desperation 

Tak! 

Hated is burning, under his skin 

And an evil power that eats from within 

He bleeds from his eyes as he drives them by 

The biggest mine in North America 

Technology working anew in the depths 

The soul of the mine now disturbed from its rest 

Answers will be found in Desperation 

There's a little dead girl, lying on the steps of the jail 

And Collie guns down Peter as he stares into her eyes 

The Carver family hears the shot from the cell 

And wonders why their daughter had to die 

Ralph and Ellie Carter, and their son, David, too 

Staring from within the cell like animals in a zoo 

Something brought them here to Desperation 

With them is Tom, the only one from the town 

His alcoholic's spirit is beaten and worn down 

And Mary joins this group in Desperation.