Idaho Boy: Listen to My Songs

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Another song about Strevell, a ghost town in southern Idaho. Some people just can't get enough of the desert, even if it kills 'em.

I’ve been lookin’ for an answer
Trying to open up a door
But every time I get here
I’m back where I was before
Now some people seek the good life
A life of style and ease
But I choose to live the hard life
Where the hot winds never cease

So take back your broken promises
I don’t need them anymore
I’m going back out to the wilderness
The broken land where I was born

Some days are filled with sunshine
Some days are filled with rain
Some days I feel my broken heart
And I cry out from the pain
So if someone ever tells you
You should never feel ashamed
Stay off that devil’s highway
Or you’ll never be the same

In the sun-baked land I come from
You can never grow a tree
We grow lizards, snakes and sagebrush
And a ton of misery
But that’s the way I like it
In this so-called no man’s land
Far from the city’s noise and lights
I can dream of rocks and sand