Shifting Whispering Sands Lyrics

The song Shifting Whispering Sands is performed by Jim Reeves in the album named Talking to Your Heart / Touch of Velvet in the year 2004 .



I discovered the valley of the shifting, whispering sands
While prospecting for gold in one of our western states
I saw the silent windmills, the crumbling water tanks
The bones of cattle and burrows, picked clean by buzzards
Bleached by the desert sun

I stumbled over a crumbling buckboard nearly covered by the sands
And stopping to rest, I heard a tinkling, whispering sound
And suddenly realized that even though the wind was quiet
The sand did not lie still

I seemed to be surrounded by a mystery
So heavy and oppressive, I could scarcely breathe
For days and weeks I wandered aimlessly in this valley
Seeking answers to the many questions
That raced through my fevered mind
Where was everyone? Why the white bones, the dry wells?

The barren valley where people must have lived and died
Finally, I could go no farther, my food and water gone
I sat down and buried my face in my hands
And resting thus, I learnt the secret of the shifting, whispering sands

How I escaped from the valley, I do not know
But now to pay my final debt for being spared
I must tell you what I learned out there on the desert
So many years ago

When the day is oddly quiet
And the breeze seems not to blow
One would think the sand was resting
But you'll find, this is not so

It is whispering, softly whispering
As it slowly moves along
And for those who stop and listen
It will sing this mournful song

Of sidewinders and the horn toads
Of the thorny chaparral
In the sunny days and moonlight nights
The coyote's lonely yell

How the stars seem you could touch them
As you lay and gaze on high
At the heavens where we're hoping
We'll be going when we die



Jim Reeves - Talking to Your Heart / Touch of Velvet

Aug 2004

  1. Trouble In The Amen Corner
  2. I'm Waiting For Ships That Never Come In
  3. Annabel Lee
  4. Gun
  5. Farmer & The Lord
  6. Shifting Whispering Sands
  7. Old Tige
  8. Why Do I Love You (Melody Of Love)
  9. (Far Away Feeling) Spell Of The Yukon
  10. Men With Broken Hearts
  11. Too Many Parties & Too Many Pals
  12. Seven Days
  13. Have You Ever Been Lonely
  14. There's Always Me
  15. Just Walking In The Rain
  16. Be Honest With Me
  17. I Fall To Pieces
  18. (It's No) Sin
  19. Welcome To My World
  20. Am I That Easy To Forget?
  21. Blue Skies
  22. All Dressed Up & Lonely
  23. Wild Rose
  24. I'm A Fool To Care

Shifting Whispering Sands