[Verse] The shifting dunes have claimed the path I paved Beneath a sun that bleeds across the sky The copper wind has stolen what I saved And left a hollow where the rivers die [Verse] I walk the miles of calcified regret Where ancient bones are polished by the gale The burning grains are all the grace I get Within this furnace where the senses fail [Chorus] The dust of the desert covers my heart A heavy shroud of unremembered names It tears the maps and memories apart And smothers out the flicker of the flames [Chorus] The dust of the desert covers my heart The salt is rising through the fractured floor I cannot tell the end from where I start Or find the handle to the rusted door [Verse] There is no water in the words I speak Only the friction of the grinding stone The spirit finds the flesh is far too weak To bear the weight of being left alone [Verse] The canyon walls are closing like a fist Around a ghost that refuses to fade I search for shadows in the morning mist But find the wreckage that the light has made [Chorus] The dust of the desert covers my heart A heavy shroud of unremembered names It tears the maps and memories apart And smothers out the flicker of the flames [Chorus] The dust of the desert covers my heart The salt is rising through the fractured floor I cannot tell the end from where I start Or find the handle to the rusted door [Outro]