'i texted you in desperation ... i said, 'heaven forbid this place!''

Heart, 'Death Valley'

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This song is somewhat of a running illustration for me. I absolutely cracked up on the way to campus one day -- Heart's Red Velvet Car has become my theme tune for daily transportation, which is good b/c uno} I love Heart and their new album and deux} I'm usually running too late to even think of grabbing my iPod and all of its accoutrement on my way out the door -- [going back into my original thought] b/c I was listening to this aforementioned song and it suddenly occurred to me how fantastically this song could serve as a ... well ... theme tune for my graduate school life these days. The long and short of it is that you really need to hear the lyrics with their accompanying music to fully appreciate their dramatickness {and I have yet to find something good on YouTube}, but otherwise, this is one flippingly magnificent song for all of its dramatic wonder.

Death Valley {Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Ben Mink}

I looked outside of my window

There was fear in the pit of my heart

There was desert as far as the eye could see

It was blistering dust and hard

I texted you in desperation

I said “Heaven forbid this place

It’s hotter than hell and I’m losing my cool

This is not of the human race” no no

Death Valley (way down low)

Death Valley (a thousand miles to go)

Death Valley (way down low)

Yeah – Death Valley (a thousand miles to go)

What if the engine should break down

What if a tire should blow

What if my soul should slip off this bus

And land in the inferno

Bouncing and tumbling onward

Watching in vain for a change

A windmill, a billboard, a Joshua tree

A rusted old home on the range

Death Valley (way down low)

Death Valley (a thousand miles to go)

Death Valley (way down low)

Death Valley (a thousand miles to go)

I’ve got slippery sand in the back of my throat

And silica in my eyes

Pretty soon this will all be another bad dream

If we make it to the other side

If we make it

If we make it

Death Valley

Death Valley

Death Valley

Death Valley (a thousand miles to go)

Death Valley (way down low)

Death Valley (a thousand miles to go)