Out in the red rock desert / sitting on the roof of my car
Drinking cans of warm beer / watching the sky get dark
Gail and I shot our empties / with an old, rusted rifle
Her golden hair went flying / like a wild, brush fire

Chorus: When the mountains turned red at dusk

Time passed in the burning desert / & the tumbleweeds they tumbled
We lay in a golden fire / as the screaming buzzards circled
Far down in the darkened valley / the city lights still twinkled
But my eyes saw only gail / and her hair in golden fire

Chorus: When the mountains turned red at dusk

But the fire burned right through her / gail followed unseen voices
They led her to the city / deep in the darkened valley
I drove circles through the alleys / calling my burning lover
But gail ran deeper in the gloom / screaming at the street lights
And I lost her there forever / deep in the valley’s darkness
My gail with the golden hair / that burned as bright as fire

Chorus: When the mountains turned red at dusk