Tags in the Desert

Highway 15 at midnight, taillights in a line Every year the desert calls the faithful one more time They say the thing we keep alive went under long ago But the dead don't book convention halls - and look at this glow City rising from the sand Lanyard waiting at the stand We wear our tags in the desert Five hundred true believers in the glow They wrote us off forever But every fall we let the neon know We're still here - tags in the desert Burning brighter than the Strip below Faces that I only see one weekend every year Same war stories, same old jokes, it all still lands out here Some of us flew in from towns the future left behind But the code don't care what year it is - and neither do the lights Keynote in the morning light But the hallway runs all night We wear our tags in the desert Five hundred true believers in the glow They wrote us off forever But every fall we let the neon know We're still here - tags in the desert Burning brighter than the Strip below They tore down the Mirage, the Hard Rock's gone The buildings keep on changing - the gathering goes on Whatever name's on the marquee, whatever hall we're in The desert keeps the faithful.. and the faithful keep the flame We wear our tags in the desert A thousand miles of nowhere either side They wrote us off forever But forever's looking pretty good tonight We're still here - tags in the desert Burning long after the headlines died Still here.. still here See you next year in the glow