Lyrics

Isabelle
(For Isabelle Eberhardt)

Cagliari, turn of the century
New Year’s Day
The loneliness is tearing you up
And won’t go away, wow
White Dove’s gone
Vava’s turned to dust
So many things you just can’t control

Now who can you trust
On the road that lies ahead?
Who’ll be there for you
In the emptiness that waits?
Could you ever guess at the final irony
Of how your life would end?

Oh Isabelle
Daughter of the Desert
Spirit in the night
Under a perilous moon
Riding through the twilight
Towards one last oasis
Restless as the wind on sand
Fate took you by the hand
When you fell
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Isabelle.

You couldn’t avoid the sorrow
You could not resist the call
Your nomad heart set compass
For the horizon’s deep blue wall, wow
Daughter of the desert
Bitter child beneath the sun
In the struggle to find your voice
You found your only one

And drank from the well of comfort
Lay beneath the cool
Deep silence of the stars
Still so in love with the far-off places
Could you hear that tolling knell?

Oh Isabelle
Daughter of the Desert
Spirit in the night
Under a perilous moon
Riding through the twilight
Towards one last oasis
Restless as the wind on sand
Fate took you by the hand
When you fell
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Isabelle

Oh Isabelle
Daughter of the Desert
Spirit in the night
Under a perilous moon
Riding through the twilight
Towards one last oasis
Restless as the wind on sand
Fate - she took you by the hand
When you fell
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Isabelle