Desperado, why don't you come to your senses You've been out ridin' fences, for so long now, oh, you're a hard one But I know that you got your reasons
There's no time to kill between the cradle and the grave Father time still takes a toll on every minute that you save Legal tender's never gonna change
Got a big leather suitcase, all I own's inside Seems I've been walkin' for days, can't even bum a ride Try steppin' to a tune, with the rhythm of a walkin
Nothin' on earth that'll get me hummin' Like a heat wave comin', I'll come runnin' With her makin' that tan in the broad daylight And every night is a
I've been bound to leave you, we've known that for awhile I'm sure it's something I can't do if I can't leave you with a smile I don't know how far I'
I ought to know the look in another's eyes When there's something on their mind I think I saw that look in a lover's eyes They were looking into mine
I've seen it going around when you get bad news Thinking that you found a darker shade of blues Looking for the light and it's a long way back You know
You were the first thing that I thought of When I thought I drank you off my mind When I get lost in the liquor You're the only one I find If I did the
Your mind is made up, you won't even try You didn't even cry this time You say that we could never see, eye to eye And one of us just must be blind We
Bottle of scotch whiskey not very smooth Like snake bite cure from the medicine man Not bad poison if there's something to soothe It's a whole other world
Maybe I took for granted, you'd be around To pick me up on my way down I thought my feet were planted firmly on the ground 'Til one day my whole world
I guess you're off to have your fun Another ending just begun And I know what I don't see Really should'nt bother me So go and have yourself a ball You
Why don't you gather 'round me people? Got a song to sing about that sweet magnolia time Black eyed Susan made some catfish stew And Papa brought some
Snow up on the mountains sun layn' low across the clouded sky i?ve been feeding this fire for so long the flame is gone i could second guess the storm
On a barstool like a damn fool Hoping she won't think, I'm to much older Just another come on line To a girl like you in a place like this And on the
There's something talkin' in the wind Whispering through the trees That feeling in my bones again Just puts me right at ease It takes me back to all
Lord, it's the same old thing Fiddle and guitar Where do we take it from here? Rhinestone suits new shiny car Well, It's been the same way for years It
(Clint Black/Hayden Nichols) Behind every good man stands a good woman Though they might be looking a different way While she's dealin' with one thing