Lyrics

A million acid rainbows
bathe me in their neon beams.
The volcano erupts every half an hour
in this land of broken dreams

At the corner of Sahara, I catch her eye
she stops and she winks
she?s a Cleopatra, she?s a Guinevere,
she?s the riddle of the Sphinx

She heads up Tropicana
as the Wheels of Fortune spin,
past the refugees from Kansas
come to spend their night with sin

My hope is spread out like a losing hand
in the stardust of her eyes
I roll my dice -- they come up one-and-one
in this stratosphere of sighs

In the dawn I fold; I cash it in
I curse this wasteland of excess
she disappears into the desert sands
my mirage of happiness

The keno waitress brings my rum,
my balm in Gilead
We say our prayers as we read and weep
for the things we never had

the things we never had,
the things we?ll never have --
the things we never had....