It's no different than driving full speed down a sleeping boulevard Reckless and stupid and one more thing we took too far Or like bullets all the words you aimed and shot directly at my head Front row to the hailstorm, at the middle of the end I missed you by a week in Chicago Ran you down in Tennessee I'd never seen time move so slow But that's just what we did to me And that's why, you don't drive the desert at night And that's why, I went left when I knew you were right Mercy, mercy, mercy on me Mercy, mercy, leaves some mercy for me It's like climbing the wall with no way of coming down And this don't mean a goddamn thing if you're not around Like slipping through my fingers into the faceless crowd Like a hammer ten stories up, straight to the ground I missed you by a week in Chicago I gave up when the weather turned I'd never seen time move so slow And this is everything I learned And that's why, you don't drive the desert at night And that's why, I went left when I knew you were right.