I know, I know… these posts are supposed to be songs from my current project, The Way It Is, but I’ve had a number of recent requests for this recording from my old band with DW Burnam, The New Death Show. It’s a cover of Lee Hazelwood’s old 60’s duet with Nancy Sinatra, although ours is more directly influenced by a version I heard from Einsturzen Neubauten.
lyrics
Young woman share your fire with me
My heart is cold, my soul is free
I am a stranger in your land
A wandering man, call me sand
Oh sir my fire is very small
It will not warm thy heart at all
But thee may take me by the hand
Hold me and I'll call thee sand
Young woman share your fire with me
My heart is cold, my soul is free
I am a stranger in your land
A wandering man, call me sand
At night when stars light up the sky
Oh sir I dream my fire is high
Oh taste these lips sir if you can
Wandering man, I call thee sand
Oh sir my fire is burning high
If it should stop sir I would die
A shooting star has crossed my land
Wandering man
She whispered sand
Sand
Young woman shared her fire with me
Now warms herself with memory
I was a stranger in her land
A wandering man, she called me sand
He was a stranger in my land
A wandering man
She called me sand
credits
from Cover Lover,
released September 7, 2012
Written by Lee Hazelwood and made famous by Nancy Sinatra
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