At Home - Joshua Tree v9

[Intro] My home. A place [Verse] I knew so well. Comforting, rolling hills of forest green and crisp, moist morning air, wide open nature all around it, yet safety in its sturdy walls. [Chorus] But then I walked hundreds of miles on California‘s desert‘s dusty sands. [Verse 2] And then one night, sunburned, legs scraped, dirty, sweating, stumbling drunkenly through gusting winds, my skin aflame from grinding sand, I called defeat and hid my battered body behind a creaking joshua tree, and fell asleep. [Interlude] [Verse 3] And slept so well amid the scorpions, snakes and critters, dirt blowing wildly just an inch above my head, my quilt aflutter in the storm, under a blurry canopy of stars, just me and wind and dirt and my new friend, the joshua tree. [Verse 4] And when I woke I felt at home like I had never felt before in this harsh, barren place that had no name and would soon just be memory, yet taught me joy and deepest trust in a moment when I felt so weak. I learned to see [Chorus 2] after I walked hundreds of miles in dirt and and heat and battering wind. [Bridge] [Verse 5] A home, I found it in the desert. Amidst coyotes howling and dust blowing I finally became nature, and nature became me, right there, behind that joshua tree. [Chorus 2] after I walked hundreds of miles in dirt and and heat and battering wind. [Melancholy] My home! [Outro] [End]