About the song:

The song and I miss you like the deserts miss the rain is a song by Everything But The Girl(Tracy Thorn and Ben Watt). The original title of the song is Missing .
The song is about longing and loss , missing someone who used to be close. The song is from the album Amplified Heart , 1993.

Lyrics:

I step off the train
I’m walking down your street again
And past your door, but you don’t live there anymore
It’s years since you’ve been there
Now you’ve disappeared somewhere, like outer space
You’ve found some better place
And I miss you (Like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you (Like the deserts miss the rain)
Could you be dead?
You always were two steps ahead, of everyone
We’d walk behind while you would run
I look up at your house
And I can almost hear you shout down to me
Where I always used to be
And I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain
… Back on the train, I ask why did I come again?
Can I confess, I’ve been hanging round your old address?
And the years have proved
To offer nothing since you’ve moved
You’re long gone, but I can’t move on
And I miss you (Like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you (Like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you
I step off the train
I’m walking down your street again
And past your door, I guess you don’t live there anymore
It’s years since you’ve been there
And now you’ve disappeared somewhere, like outer space
You’ve found some better place
And I miss you
And I miss you
You found some better place
And I miss you (Like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you, yeah (Like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you, and I miss you
(Like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you, yeah (Like the deserts miss the rain)
The deserts miss the rain
(Like the deserts miss the rain)
Like the deserts miss the rain
(Like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you, yeah (Like the deserts miss the rain)

Achievements:

Peaked at #2 on the US Billboard Top 100.
Hit #1 in several countries like Germany, Italy, Canada.
Reaches #3 US single chart.

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