Lift the wailing wood
Hammer the tortured nails
Place the ghostly steps

Below the battered rails

Invite those crazy strangers

Dressed in stranger clothes
Join the mighty miracle
Ready to unfold


Building a stairway
In the desert

Aimed toward the pure and honest sky
Building a stairway
In the desert

Going to rise for miles
And miles


Leave this evil town
Where scorpions share your bed
Guilty snakes make a home

Deep inside your head

The bleeding sun

Burns your feet
Hangmen joke
Beggars weep


Buried bodies
Cry for help

Undertakers
Steal your wealth


Building a stairway
In the desert
Aimed toward the pure and honest sky

Building a stairway
In the desert
Going to rise for miles

And miles

We're laughing and

We're dancing
In the desert
Dancing in the desert

Of our lives

Can't you see?

We're dancing in the desert
Dancing in the desert
Of our lives


Feel so free
Dancing in the desert

Dancing in the desert
Of our lives


Free?.so free
In the desert
Dancing in the desert

Of our lives

Lift the wailing wood

Hammer the tortured nails