Story Behind The Song

Having served in combat, I have first hand knowledge of the loneliness and isolation one feels, while doing what they believe is the right thing.

Song Description

After 9/11 a man goes off to war to seek revenge for the assault on America. He sorely misses his wife/girlfriend but feels a need to extract some retaliation.

Lyrics

Desert Heat by Jim Miller Copyright 2006

intro:

verse
I lie a-wake at night thinking how I miss you love
I dream of you when I fall a-sleep
It?s been too long since I held you in my arms
But we always are together in my dreams

chorus
Though we are so far apart, I see your pretty face
When I close my eyes to go to sleep
This ain?t no place to settle down, and raise a family
And I sure as hell don?t like this desert heat

I take your letters with me, when I go to work
And when we take a break sometimes I read
About the things worth fighting for, home and family
And of living in the land of the free

verse
A voice inter-rupts my thoughts, ?it?s time for moving out?
It brings me back to real-ity
We pick up our guns, then head on up the road
To face an un-certain desti-ny

We walk along in silence, looking, all around
Hearing sounds floating on the breeze
Smelling smoke in the air and seeing other things
You think you?d only find in a bad dream

chorus
Though we are so far apart, I see your pretty face
When I close my eyes to go to sleep
This ain?t no place to settle down, and raise a family
And I sure as hell don?t like this desert heat

I keep your picture in my vest and when I?m feeling down
I take a look into you smiling eyes
It helps to calm the anger that?s burned inside of me
Since the airplanes came falling from the skies

bridge
There are people in this world that mean to do us harm
They crossed the line we?d drawn there in the sand
If we turned the other cheek, they?d only think that we are weak
So I had to come and fight them like a man

verse
Don?t want to fight them on our soil, so we hunt them down
Some pay back is what they?re going to get
We spend our waking hours finding where they?re at
And now they?re going to pay for what they did

Chorus
Now it?s time to do the job I came here for
They?re shooting at us from a line of trees
We light ?em up, send them, straight to hell
(Where it?s probably cooler than this desert heat)

A then a day will come, when the fighting ends
The dust and the smoke will disappear
I hope the world is going to be a much better place
Where children won?t have to live in fear
out:
Don?t want the little children, anywhere, to live in fear