The Desert Rose

She slapped her teacher in the face

She was radical that way

So they called her 'Poison Grace'

But she chased the name away

And she left here for the silk road

The route set out, out in sand

In her own hand, she took off with a caravan...

Everyday the desert grows

In every way the desert knows

It swallows roads and rivers whole

And all our hopes and manifestos

And all the while the desert throws

The gauntlet down to Romeos

To soften, soothe or else enclose

The hardened heart of the desert rose

She took in wed-lock on the way

Aaah, but it didn't last

It came to dead-lock in a single day

And she got out fast

There was still light in her night sky

The last she had, all the snags

And her glad rags, stowed into her saddlebags...

Everyday the desert grows

In every way the desert knows

It swallows roads and rivers whole

And all our hopes and manifestos

And all the while the desert throws

The gauntlet down to Romeos

To soften, soothe or else enclose

The hardened heart of the desert rose

But that was then and this is now

And that was Chelsea, anyhow

It's all the shifting of the dunes

Different faces - but the same old honeymoons

And where's the Montague now?

He's just he mouthpiece for the head of sales

Oh where's the Montague now? Lost,

Along the dusty trail