The Uninvited Guest

It was the darkest part of the desert night Just before the dawn when the spirits wander And a deep foreboding darkness Smothered out the star lights in the sky It crept down from the desert hills And spread out on the plains and the space beyond it Where it wrapped its cold embrace around the lives Of those who chose this place to die In the distance something howled in a low and mournful sound On the wind a voice was whispering cleanse this hallowed ground And mothers grabbed their babies and held them to their breasts As the thunder cracked, a flash split through the night It's the uninvited guest This land first takes the weak and weary But the balance of survival can be shaped by other means And there are those that come to feed on carrion And hide behind the blackness of the night Too many go to wait or claim their rights in this foreign place Where they are watched by eyes unseen And they overtax the delicate structure that preserves this way of life And that's not right In the distance something howled in a low and mournful sound On the wind a voice was whispering cleanse this hallowed ground And mothers grabbed their babies and held them to their breasts As the thunder cracked, a flash split through the night It's the uninvited guest The desert is a place of life from death And it gives no quarter or favor even in the face of sin And those that seek to change it for their own purposes End up no worse or better than those who live by its laws In the scorching daylight, everything seeks its own cover Until the shadows come and spread the darkness once again And then the nocturnal ones move warily in search of prey But in deathly fear of what their search may cost In the distance something howled in a low and mournful sound On the wind a voice was whispering cleanse this hallowed ground And mothers grabbed their babies and held them to their breasts As the thunder cracked, a flash split through the night It's the uninvited guest It's the uninvited guest