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Desert Angel Lyrics
I was born in the desert
So I know how it feels there...
Well look up...it's a shooting star
But it's as black as night...no stars
Well this is the first thing,
That I've written
Since I wrote about freedom...
And then the wall came down
Well we thought it was a great,...beginning
People were free to cross the line
But then something happened...in the desert
Something broke the stars...into pieces
Well I live below...a great red mountain
In the shape of a great huge beast
In a place the indians call...Paradise Valley
Well this has always been my sanctuary
I send that to you...too
There on the other side of the world
In the desert...
And we are the guardians
No black clouds...just the faces of you
So where is my father,
Where has he gone
Where is my husband
Where is my son
Where is my father
Where has he gone
What is it that happened here,
Is it real...This war...
This can't be happening
Ooh well I need to see you
In your...far away war
And you should know...how much we love you They call us here, Operation Desert Angel...
They call us here, Operation Desert Angel...
In waiting...Operation Desert Shield Operation Desert Storm...Operation Desert Angel
So I know how it feels there...
Well look up...it's a shooting star
But it's as black as night...no stars
That I've written
Since I wrote about freedom...
And then the wall came down
Well we thought it was a great,...beginning
People were free to cross the line
But then something happened...in the desert
Something broke the stars...into pieces
In the shape of a great huge beast
In a place the indians call...Paradise Valley
Well this has always been my sanctuary
I send that to you...too
There on the other side of the world
In the desert...
And we are the guardians
No black clouds...just the faces of you
Where has he gone
Where is my husband
Where is my son
Where is my father
Where has he gone
What is it that happened here,
Is it real...This war...
This can't be happening
In your...far away war
And you should know...how much we love you They call us here, Operation Desert Angel...
They call us here, Operation Desert Angel...
In waiting...Operation Desert Shield Operation Desert Storm...Operation Desert Angel
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She wrote this song about and for the troops in the Operation Desert Storm Iraq war..she sent it to them as well as put it on her Best of :Timespace 1991 album..
That's right. In fact, if you look at the sleeve of her single "Sometimes It's A Bitch", from the same album ("Desert Angel" was the B-side), it's a picture of Stevie superimposed on an American flag that a soldier sent her from the theatre of operations. Stevie has been passionately supportive of U.S. troops for many years now; she's made repeated visits to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington in the last couple of years to see soldiers wounded in the current Iraq war. Her official website contains lengthy excerpts from her journal describing these visits.
By the way, Stevie says in her liner notes for the song that "Operation Desert Angel" was a project gotten up by relatives of service members from Arizona during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. I have to go back and check these notes but apparently it involved angel figures with the names of the service members on them.