DESERT GIRL (BALLADS OF THE EXODUS)
When I was young
I killed a man
I went on the run
With blood on my hands
When the story spread
Of the man that I slayed
I knew I had to flee
I knew I couldn't stay
Under that eastern sun
I bid my life goodbye
I headed out
Under those eastern skies
Where can a man go
When he has no home
Where can a man like me flee
But to the desert, beyond the Red Sea
When I was young
I met a girl
With her sisters and their flock
At the watering well
Then I met her Daddy
And he gave her away
There in a moment
I chose to stay
The problem was
She was a Midian girl
Not of Abraham's tribe
She wasn't of my world
But it didn't seem to matter
Her Daddy didn't seem to mind
As I long as took her
And left my people behind
Zipporah, my desert girl
Zipporah, my Midian girl
Dancing in the evening light
With you under painted skies
Embracing as the heat of day
Dissipates and fades away
Into the cool and dark of night