Heart's Desire

   C                            E7
It might look hard - it might look high
Bb9                    A7
Make me tired - make me sigh
             D76                                 F7
But if a camel can go through a needle's eye
          Am7          D76                      F7
Then even I can have my heart's desire
 

 C                            E7
It might not last - the way things do
Bb9                    A7
But I'll hold fast - and I'll be true
       D76                  F7
And if the first foot's in the fire
          Am7          D76                      F7
Then even I can have my heart's desire
 

Am7                  F7
Oh -------------- you --------------
Am7                  F7
Oh -------------- you--------------
Am7 E7      F7
Oh - you - could use a good friend too
Am7                          D7
Just like monks and monkeys do
Am7                            Am7
[humming]
Am7         F7

[humming]

 C                            E7
My mind is set then - on the path
Bb9                               A7
That changes nuff - to make you laugh
       D76             F7
And if we find a place that's ours
          Am7          D76                      F7
Then even we can have our heart's desire

It might look hard - it might look high
Bb9                    A7
Make us tired - make us sigh
             D76                                 F7
But if a camel can go through a needle's eye
          Am7          D76                      F7
Then even we can have our heart's desire

Indonesian

Keinginan hati

Mungkin terlihat sulit - mungkin terlihat tinggi
Membuatku lelah -membuatku menghela nafas
Tapi jika unta bisa masuk lubang jarum
Lalu Aku pun dapat memiliki keinginan hatiku

Itu mungkin tidak bertahan lama - seperti hal biasanya
Tapi Aku akan berpegang teguh - dan Aku akan menjadi kenyataan
Dan jika kaki pertama ada di dalam api
Lalu Aku pun dapat memiliki keinginan hatiku

Oh kamu ----------------- Oh kamu --------------------

Oh - kamu - bisa menggunakan teman baik juga
Sama seperti biksu dan monyet lakukan

Pikiran Aku sudah ditetapkan  - di jalan
Perubahan itu cukup - untuk membuat Anda tertawa
Dan jika kita menemukan tempat itu milik kita
Lalu Aku pun dapat memiliki keinginan hatiku

Mungkin terlihat sulit - mungkin terlihat tinggi
Membuat kami lelah -membuat kami menghela nafas
Tapi jika unta bisa masuk lubang jarum
Lalu kami pun dapat memiliki keinginan hati kami

The first recording of this song is from the 83-04 tape soon after I'd written it for Terry Killam whom I was enamored with. She came from an oil family in south Texas and we had friends in common. I met her when I was working on anti-nuclear songs. Suzie Benson introduced us. Terry helped out and later, much to her surprise, I paid her back. Terry had been living in (fellow Fort Worthian) John Denver's community in Aspen. On a trip through there I stayed at her parents' home (took me a while to find their booze) and visited her charming cabin. She studied with the trans-Buddhist Burmese teacher, Goenka. Terry became Treya and went on to marry Ken Wilber who wrote Grace and Grit about their relationship, her cancer, and death.  She was an impassioned seeker and, like most wealthy women, maybe people, she suffered because of her riches. The line in this song, "If a camel can go through a needle's eye, then even I can find my heart's desire," ending the first verse and "even you can have your heart's desire" ending the last verse and the song, refers to the famous Bible quote. I told her my interpretation of that was just that attachment, desire impedes understanding which is no secret and that having a lot of stuff tempts us to be attached but these are just difficulties, not impenetrable walls. I had read that the small door in the wall of a medieval Mid-eastern castle or city, a door that required camels to get unpacked and down on their knees to pass through, was  called, one name for it at least, was the Needle's Eye. The Needle's Eye is a camel door. The camel passes but must make an effort. She liked that so I wrote her this song.

This was Dianne Aigaki's favorite song of mine. She'd heard many because her mate from the eighties, Randy Rand, was a recording engineer I worked with - still a dear friend though it's been a while.

- DC