Way out west a girl could lose her given sense In all the truth that old desert sky can tell That horizon's just too much for me But if I could count infinity, I'd know the desert well These days I chalk it up to restlessness You loved my loneliness I loved your smile We put the wild in the wilderness Made turquoise into timelessness in every dusty mile Maybe we played with fire Maybe it made me wiser, but I should've left you in Tucson There's no replacement for your innocence When you leave it up to circumstance To toss you where it will And so you led me on And so I went along Now open space ain't nothing I can fill Maybe we played with fire Maybe it made me wiser, but I shouldve left you in Tucson After you disappeared in Phoenix Not even blazing summer days Could keep my body warm I have no doubt you found serenity Or turned some woman's fantasy Into a rising storm Maybe it's all behind me Maybe it still reminds me that I should've left you in Tucson And now I've been so long away Two months, a day, and seven years But I won't go back to Arizona I still have battles with this emptiness You'd call it uselessness I call it noise I found a city where the rainy season's overdone There ain't no dust There ain't no damn turquoise Maybe the pain's subsided Maybe the rain can hide it, but I should've left you in Tucson