I'm leaning on the overpass skidmarks on the road
Things I grew up doin I never did outgrow
Middle of those runnin years she walked into my life
She couldn't get the devil out of me Lord knows she tried
She was right as rain she was good as gold but I wouldn't change
And now she's gone, I'm just not the same.
It's hard to be an outlaw out run or out draw
The laws of life that you once could ignore
It's a desperate desperado that can't see through his sorrow
That he was runnin from or runnin for
Oh it's hard to be an outlaw When you're not wanted anymore.
There was no where left to turn to but back to my old self
Livin like there's no tomorrow now it's somethin else
The trails I used to live to blaze are winding up dead ends.
With a voice inside my head reminding me what could have been
I was wild as the wind as cold as they come thinkin I was cool
Now lookin back, I'm lookin at a fool.
Chorus
It's a desperate desperado that can't see through his sorrow
That he was runnin from or runnin for
Oh it's hard to be an outlaw When you're not wanted anymore.