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To borrow from our friend wikipedia: "Tea in the Sahara" is a song by the British new wave band The Police released in 1984. Written by Sting, the song appeared on the band's final album, Synchronicity. It was written about the Paul Bowles novel The Sheltering Sky. Neither of us Pandas ever disliked this song. If you haven't read the novel you should. It's impressionable and reasonably dark. Bertolucci made it into a film and I remember I saw that after reading it at Vinegar Hill in Charlottesville many lifetimes ago.

lyrics

My sisters and I
Have this wish before we die
And it may sound strange
As if our minds are deranged
Please don't ask us why
Beneath the sheltering sky
We have this strange obsession
You have the means in your possession

We want our tea in the Sahara with you
We want our tea in the Sahara with you

The young man agreed
He would satisfy their need
So they danced for his pleasure
With a joy you could not measure
They would wait for him here
The same place every year
Beneath the sheltering sky
Across the desert he would fly

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you

The sky turned to black
Would he ever come back?
They would climb a high dune
They would pray to the moon
But he'd never return
So the sisters would burn
As their eyes searched the land
With their cups full of sand

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you

credits

from Songs We Used To Hate V​.​1, released May 6, 2016
Written by The Police (I think Sting gets all the credit). I wonder if now song credits are shared more widely among band members than they were in the past? This rendition is interpreted produced and recorded by Panda Transport

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panda transport France

French guy, American girl duo.
Ingredients and Tools: jazzy cool vox, synths, guitar, Tenori, Theremin.
If you like: Air, Feist, Nouvelle Vague, Bird and the Bee, Blondie, french cuisine, dark chocolate, good wine.
Live: USA- NYC, LA, Chicago, DC, Dallas EUROPE: Paris, Brussels, Zurich, Malmö
Placement: Grey's Anatomy, NBC, Les InRocks, Tracks
to book a show :Gustaf Murman
gustaf@onourhoneymoon.se
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