I'm the desert, you're the rain  When I'm cracked and dry you ease my pain  When my aching body crumbles  Wanting of a peaceful refrain  I whisper to you softly  I'm the desert you're the rain  Chorus:  It happened long ago  When I was just a boy of seventeen  You were a woman schooled in love and finer things  You took me by the hand and we danced through  Each others dreams  And I whispered to you softly  I'm the desert, you're the rain  When my firebrand soul lashes out in vain  The sky opens up and you cool me again  When my windswept mind cannot seem to find the way  I whisper to you softly  I'm the desert you're the rain  I'm the desert, you're the rain  When I'm cracked and dry you ease my pain  When my aching body crumbles  Wanting of a peaceful refrain  I whisper to you softly  I'm the desert you're the rain