Tucson

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