In The First Place

God damn I miss the desert
And the roads that lead me there
Can’t tell now if I'm homesick
Or sick of never knowing where

My home is, or my heart is
Ever more the bare
God damn I miss the desert
Like I'm missing everywhere

There’s only one way out of town
I’ll find it alone, or I’ll lose it with you
And now she’s waiting out at the back gate
To turn and run, or choose to stay in a life
She never had in the first place

If we could just go back to summer
Change the winds that blew us here
I could have passed you on that sidewalk
I could have saved us all those years

And I know that things have changed dear
You think the stories write themselves
Ya, you think you’ve found the ending
I can never really tell

There’s only one way out of town
I’ll find it alone, or I’ll lose it with you
And now she’s waiting out at the back gate
To turn and run, or choose to stay in a life
She never had in the first place

Oh, how simple it is for a heart to ache
For a moment in time, or the thought of a place
Where you can roll the credits now
Oh I think I’ve seen enough

There’s only one way out of town
I’ll find it alone, oh I lost it when I met you
And now she’s waiting out at the back gate
To turn and run, or choose to stay in a life
She never had, oh you never had it in the first place