This song is based on my own experiences from my year as an exchange student in California when I was 16 years old.
Everything was different from home, and I experienced a loneliness like never before. But a gradual awakening taught me how to turn loneliness into something else. The dreams could continue- as the force of teenage dreams should-but in a more realistic and mature way. And they were part of a new little personal space inside myself.
The desert became my friend and became the symbol of my loneliness and fear, but also my longing and my dreams.

I have visited California several times since my stay as an exchange student.

I always come back to the desert.