In the desert I call home There's a place I like to go To feel less alone Take a dive in the pool of time In the shade of valley low Where a maze of mushrooms grow And the ocotillos glow Lai-di-dai That's when I get high Oh, I get High On nostalgia, my favorite drug, my faded life Mojave winds, dust on our skin, sun in your eyes Memories of us, lost in the dusk, California high In my life of wandering When I play guitar and sing Everybody drinks to the bedouin nights And the world gone by I've been trying to move on Tip my hat and say so long Sing a different song Lai-di-dai But then I get high Oh, I get High On nostalgia, my favorite drug, my faded life Mojave winds, dust on our skin, sun in your eyes Memories of us, lost in the dusk, California high On nostalgia, my favorite drug, my faded life Mojave winds, dust on our skin, sun in your eyes Memories of us, lost in the dusk, California high