• 6 years ago
I live in a desert. Haboobs are a thing that happen. The first one you experience is pretty crazy. There's just an enormous red/orange wall of dust and sand that fills the horizon as it approaches. Everyone has to get off the road, and stay indoors because visibility gets to zero.
I've lived here many years and experienced many sand and dust storms. Recently, however, I had a first.

I was on the road in the middle of nowhere when one came up, so we couldn't get indoors. It was the first time I had ever seen lightning strike in a sand storm. It was strangely beautiful in a way divergent from rainstorms.

That was an experience in itself, but as the dust began to settle a bit, we saw a rainbow appear in the dust clouds! And then, we realized it was a double rainbow. It's hard to explain how surreal it is to see that in the middle of the desert, in the midst of fields of brown and clouds of dust, but I'm glad I got to witness it.

Bandcamp: https://aniegarner.bandcamp.com/track/the-sound-of-color

Lyrics:
why do we do the things we do?
if we knew what we know when we were New
do you think it would change?
do you think it would make a difference?

have you ever seen the lightning through the dust?
have you ever been right there when it just rises up?
and with the eArth in the sky, have you wondered why
it’s coming for you now? and that’s the sound of thunder
you better take cover
with a wall of brown, gonna chase you down
there’s a flash and a crash and at last
that’s the sound of color

why do we try the things we Try?
if we can walk along just fine why do we fly
who thinks of these things?
who thinks it would bring resistance?

have you ever seen the lightning through the dust?
have you ever been right there when It just rises up?
and with the earth in the sky, have you wondered why
it’s coming for you now? and that’s the sound of thunder
you better take cover
with a wall of brown, gonna chase you down
there’s a spark through the dark in your heart
and that’s the sound of color

why do we belieVe in better things?
when all our history, it seems to just repeat
do we think it will change?
do we think we can make a difference?

have you Ever seen the lightning through the dust?
have you ever been right there when it just rises up?
and with the earth in the sky, have you wondered why
it’s coming for you now? and that’s the sound of thunder
you better take cover
with a wall of brown, gonna chase you down
there’s a flash and a crash and at last
that’s the sound of color

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