Frankie Sullivan/Jim Peterik)

Published by WB Music Corp./EMI Virgin Music, Inc. - ASCAP/Ensign Music Corporation/Rude Music, Inc. - BMI



When the wind decides that it's time to ride

To spread a little hell through the heartland

It takes a good long toke then it blows the smoke, through the desert night

And the wings of fire, keep climbin' higher

Flames cuttin' hard through the homeland

It takes a mighty strong will to strip the chill from the desert night



You waken from your dream, by a siren's scream

Trapped by the walls that surround you

Then it's will to will, and you wonder still can you struggle free

In a thousand ways, when you turn the phrase

The wind's like a love of a woman (woman, woman, woman)

It takes a mighty mean bitch, some fire witch

To set the night on fire



And the Santa Ana wind's gonna have its way tonight

Nothing you can do's gonna change her mind

And ain't it a lot like love the way desire takes you in

And sparks the fire like the Santa Ana wind



Now the air is calm, and the heart grows numb

The ashes burnin' low in the heartland

Till again the wind starts closin' in to set the night on fire



And the Santa Ana wind's blowin' cross my heart tonight

Nothing you can do's gonna change her mind

And woman I want your love

I need that passion deep within

Like the ragin' fire needs the Santa Ana wind



And the Santa Ana wind's gonna take your life tonight

Nothing you can do's gonna change her mind

And ain't it a lot like love

The way desire takes you in

Swept away with the Santa Ana wind