Smitty West - Baja Dream
lyrics
Baja Dream
2006

Water mirrors the hillsides.
Sun dips in the sea.
Go to sleep.
Desert breeze.
Cool and clean.
Baja dream.

Seabird is calling to no one.
No one calls now to me.
She rides on.
Free, but gone.
Leaves on the stream.
Baja dream.

Like a cactus, fighting to flower.
Petals, dried out and tossed.
Cast away.
Its an old cliché,
That Im better to have loved and to have lost.

Somewhere theres a spring in the desert.
I want to float in that stream.
Drift away.
So, I pray:
Carry me.
Baja dream.

Coastal Baja California is one of my favorite places to relax. Theres a little beach about a half-days drive south of the border with good surfing, fantastic sunsets, and nobody trying to extort 50 pesos for beach camping. Gorgeous desert, blue Pacific, coastal mountains, and thats about it. The food is great hand-picked cold water mussels grilled over the fire or boiled in beer.

Sorry, I cant tell you where it is. Find your own secret spot.

Watching the sky on fire at sunset and half asleep, I felt this song come to me. A lullaby in three-quarters time, I cant sing it without hearing that seagull, calling to no one.