Desperation Part 1

[m/l van Dyk]
 Peter and Mary, drive cross-country
 Entering Desperation, Nevada
 Red lights flash and their destines changed
 As the patrol car pulls behind them
 Collie Etrangian, arm of the law
 Stops them and searches the back of their car
 There in the trunk, some drugs in a bag
 And they find themselves arrested
 Pulled them over, to the side of the road
 With a body that's bloated and bursting; too old
 "We'll get this sorted out in Desperation
 Tak!
 Hated is burning, under his skin
 And an evil power that eats from within
 He bleeds from his eyes as he drives them by
 The biggest mine in North America
 Technology working anew in the depths
 The soul of the mine now disturbed from its rest
 Answers will be found in Desperation
 There's a little dead girl, lying on the steps of the jail
 And Collie guns down Peter as he stares into her eyes
 The Carver family hears the shot from the cell
 And wonders why their daughter had to die
 Ralph and Ellie Carter, and their son, David, too
 Staring from within the cell like animals in a zoo
 Something brought them here to Desperation
 With them is Tom, the only one from the town
 His alcoholic's spirit is beaten and worn down
 And Mary joins this group in Desperation.