Seems to me to describe poor Mexican people longing to enter the United States-the land of hopes and dreams. Dreaming of that day underneath a desert sky, they have great hope, but soon the hope runs dry. They need something to renew that hope tonight. but each night when reality sets in, the dream must die. She is on "the other side" of the Rio Grande. Beautiful, but poor and ragged, like a beautiful flower that has sprung up in the desert. When the mid-day sun hits, all they feel like doing is sleeping. Like a drug-it's one of the few escapes from the suffering heat. Big, dark, yearning eyes, scan across the local cemetery, and they realize how many others before have died while waiting for that day of escape to a better life and brighter future. Give them inspiration. They'll push thru the dark desperation, willing to die for the opportunity to see what's on the other side... Anyway, you get the idea. She stands with a naked flame might refer to the statue of liberty.
Seems to me to describe poor Mexican people longing to enter the United States-the land of hopes and dreams. Dreaming of that day underneath a desert sky, they have great hope, but soon the hope runs dry. They need something to renew that hope tonight. but each night when reality sets in, the dream must die. She is on "the other side" of the Rio Grande. Beautiful, but poor and ragged, like a beautiful flower that has sprung up in the desert. When the mid-day sun hits, all they feel like doing is sleeping. Like a drug-it's one of the few escapes from the suffering heat. Big, dark, yearning eyes, scan across the local cemetery, and they realize how many others before have died while waiting for that day of escape to a better life and brighter future. Give them inspiration. They'll push thru the dark desperation, willing to die for the opportunity to see what's on the other side... Anyway, you get the idea. She stands with a naked flame might refer to the statue of liberty.