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The
World's Oldest Boy*
It's Not
Looking Good*
Little Rabbit
Enjoy
The Ride*
Trillionaires
This Island Life*
Canto Del Gato*
Junior
Bandango*
Till The Sun Comes Out
Some God Forgives*
The Minister Of Shadows
Visions
Of Dulcinea*
I guess I still have one last quest
As I retreat
into the west
These yucca trees sure like it dry
Reach like Joshua for
the sky
Dragons guard this Virgin
Gorge
A wheel of swords below St. George
Above the zigzagged, tough
mesquite
The canyon walls wave in the heat
As I coast along this downhill grade
The long hot day begins
to fade
With just the lonely desert night ahead
And time-worn visions long
since dead
Tomorrow's sand has not yet blown
Fate is known to God
alone
I'll stare into that setting sun
Until the earth and sky are
one
This is how I waste
my days
Pulling portraits from the haze
Straining music out of noise
Daring
words to be my toys
Grabbing dragons by their tails
Like heroes do in fairy tales
But
all the words in
all those books
Are friends to charlatans and crooks
Those giants
looming on the hills
Are just the innocent windmills
Eyes can lie and
lies reveal
Who can say what's truly real
If I could only stop my mind
The
way a cork seals up the wine
And keep my spirit safe and sound
Until
at last all thoughts have drowned
When I face that final
glare
With hat in hand and soul laid bare
I'll say to God please
do your worst
Just let me see Dulcinea first
Her face was pale as a swoon
As cactus flowers beneath the moon
In
dreams she lounges on my bed
And softly soothes my half-baked head
I'd pledge my sword to her as queen
To see her roll her
tamborine
Her languid dance with castenets
Would banish all of my regrets
To some she seems a peasant girl
To me she outshines all
the world
Defend her honor to the death
Speak her name with my last
breath
She spent her life like it was gold
But what she bought
I never sold
She smashed into a thousand bits
The remnants of my tattered
wits
If at last I'm forced to dwell
In the deepest pit of Hell
In
that lake of fire immersed
Just let me see Dulcinea first
Dry reality still pales
Compared to songs and fairy tales
Ravens lick the bones of doves
And rainbows outlive
untrue loves
She always was a choosy thief
She stole my love but left
my grief
The truth was lost in vast barrages
Of sodden dreams and dry mirages
If some small voice said we had sinned
That voice was lost within the wind
When she offered
me her hand
It turned to stone and then to sand
Sometimes I long to be uncouth
And beg her just to tell
the truth
Her reply would be just scorn
I'm too old to
love, too young to mourn
I could rest in paradise
And relive all my best
days twice
I'd still swear that I'd been cursed
If I couldn't
see Dulcinea first
If a man becomes so proud
To write his name upon a cloud
Then the cloud will turn to rain
And bring
his name back down again
There is no rich
man on this earth
Can pay you what your time is worth
There is no holy
man so wise
Can see what pain within you lies
Every lyric that you hear
Bent the sharp point of my
spear
Every note of every chord
Dulled the keen edge of my sword
It's time to trade deserted nights
For games of chance
and flashing lights
Enjoy the show like all the rest
And end all these
quixotic quests
In that sea of flesh so tan
I
could drown a happy man
Without a drop
to quench my thirst
If I could see Dulcinea first
"Dulcinea" was the name (derived from "dulce," Spanish for "sweet") that Cervantes came up with for Don Quixote's fair damsel, who was actually just a dull peasant girl. Placed in the Virgin River Gorge in the northwest corner of Arizona, where I took the cover photo, this song shows how unhinged just the sight of a beautiful woman can leave a man.