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It was off the desert road

Fourteen miles up in the canyon I was born

Where the rocks were piled up high

And when the sun went down

They looked like big old monsters

You could yell out your whole name

And the echo would come back crystal clear

And the silence was so deafening

I could hear it like thunder in my ears

I still taste the sweet cool water

As it bubbled out to quench the burning sand

And the cottonwoods stood trembling

As the desert wind blew soft across the land

Somewhere far away a coyote

Called out his mournful ghostly song

And I knew that very soon

Sweet desert childhood would be gone

Can a man ever go back home again?

Can a man ever live that way again?

The old windmill made a groan

As it turned around to face the cold of the night

The proof of all existence

Crackled warm in the flickering firelight

And the stars were so perfect

That I wondered might this all just be a dream

Could this all-alone place really be as magic as it seems?

Can a man ever go back home again?

Can a man ever live that way again?

From Flying Again

Columbia Records