Track Insight / Lyrics
I remember the desert's lonely howl
Where road meets horizon, where the high lonesome call
The sagebrush whispers ancient stories
Of travelers baked in the merciless glare
Now I'm back again, catalpa blooming
The green oasis between blacktop and barren dream
Electric lights strip the night of its mystery
Yet in this neon fugue the neonaries dance and sway
Understitched in steel with glowing veins
Sparks of life in a highway scar
I found my carbon oasis in the night
Where asphalt blooms, where pulsing signs ignite
A fever dream of color, heat and light
Carbon oasis, my prismatic, neon delight
Tumbleweeds roll, far as the eye can reach
Where sky meets earth in a barren breach
Yet here a forest of bulbs burns bright
Beckoning travelers lost in the light
Though the desert claws at every door
I crave the neon glow once more
Electric lights strip the night of its mystery
Yet in this neon fugue the neonaries dance and sway
Understitched in steel with glowing veins
Sparks of life in a highway scar
I found my carbon oasis in the night
Where asphalt blooms, where pulsing signs ignite
A fever dream of color, heat and light
Carbon oasis, my prismatic, neon delight
The heat of the highway, the city's hum
I'm chasing the blurs, the frenzied thum
From Tucson to Phoenix, Kokopelli's path
Til my desert oasis shines like a beacon in the aftermath
I found my carbon oasis in the night
Where asphalt blooms, where pulsing signs ignite
A fever dream of color, heat and light
Carbon oasis, my prismatic, neon delight
Electric lights strip the night of its mystery
But in this neon oasis I am finally free
In the fever glow of the city's canvas bright
I'm home again under the electric night
Palm fronds sway, neon puddles fade to dark
The desert calls, but I know where my heart will spark
In the carbon oasis, where the highway's might
Meets the pulsing lights that guide me to delight
