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