Emmylou Harris - Flower in the Desert lyrics

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(Jim & Jessie McReynolds)

Emmylou Harris, Carl Jackson)

Emmylou Harris & Jesse and Jim McReynolds

Sometimes I feel like a flower in the desert

Blooming alone like a motherless child

So far away in a prison of freedom

The only thing living for hundreds of miles.

I gave you all of the love in my heart

Just like a bouquet for your beautiful hand

And you stayed till its roots had grown deep as the ocean

And left it alone in a cold barren land.

I don’t think again I will find room or reason

To thirst for the water or reach for the sky

I wish I was just a flower in the desert

That never knowed the meaning of hello or goodbye.

--- Instrumental ---

I nurtured and tended the faith I had in you

But the seeds of destruction were there from the start

Was I born to bloom and waste my sweet fragrance

On the desolate plain of your cold, cold heart.

I don’t think again I will find room or reason

To thirst for the water or reach for the sky

I wish I was just a flower in the desert

That never knowed the meaning of hello or goodbye.

I don’t think again I will find room or reason

To thirst for the water or reach for the sky

I wish I was just a flower in the desert

That never knowed the meaning of hello or goodbye.

That never knowed the meaning of hello or goodbye...