I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound
I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la
After two days in the desert sun
My skin began to turn red
After three days in the desert funr
I was looking at a river bed
And the story it told of a river that flowed
Made me sad to think it was dead
My skin began to turn red
After three days in the desert funr
I was looking at a river bed
And the story it told of a river that flowed
Made me sad to think it was dead
You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la
After nine days I let the horse run free
'Cause the desert had turned to sea
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
there was sand and hills and rings
The ocean is a desert with it's life underground
And a perfect disguise above
Under the cities lies a heart made of ground
But the humans will give no love
'Cause the desert had turned to sea
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
there was sand and hills and rings
The ocean is a desert with it's life underground
And a perfect disguise above
Under the cities lies a heart made of ground
But the humans will give no love
You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la
I remember when this song first came out. They seemed to play it on every other song on the radio. It came out in 1971 and man you could hear it on car radios or coming out the windows of houses as you walked by. It was everywhere in a way that songs don't happen nowadays.
The lyrics didn't make any sense. Some people bullshited that it was about drugs. Specifically heroin. That sort of fits but I think it is over thinking it. Many people thought it was a Neil Young song as it has the same offbeat tone and delivery. I think it just hit the spot at that moment when it would have been nothing the next year. It sure was a one hit wonder for the band America.
When I take a shower I call out to Alexa to put up a pandora station to play really loud so I could sing along. This came up on the "Into the Mystic" station. It took me back to more innocent time. As I was washing my balls I remembered that when this song came out I barely had any hair on my balls.
Time flies when you are stuck in quarantine.
4 comments:
America was three army brats who found each other while living in England somewhere. I always liked them, except that stupid Muskrat Love song. Of all the songs of theirs someone could cover, Captain and Tennille chose that one? Puh-leeze. Learn two chords and you can play the song. Em and D. Or Am and B, if that's too high. Even I can do that and the only thing I play worse than guitar is short stop. There are plenty of inane and outright stupid lyrics in music. Hot heat...okay... You could fill a blog with stupid song lyrics.
"But in this ever changing world in which we're living in
Makes you give in and cry"
Needs more ins.
These guys really had a talent for earworms. I always liked "Daisy Jane" and "Ventura Highway." "Sister Golden Hair" is forever associated for me with that scene in the Sopranos.
Drugs had to have played a role in the lyrics somehow. Somebody was very high.
Even as Junior High Schoolers in 1971 with the same ball condition as Trooper, we mocked that song mercilessly. But dumb, nonsense, communist, bubble gummy, nationalistic, dirty, clean, and all other types of lyrics became earworms at that time.
Horse With No Name
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
This Land Is Yor Land
Yummy Yummy Yummy
Pride Of The Green Berets
Triad (The Byrds)
Reason To Believe
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