Too long on these empty streets
Always running from nothing
It doesn't matter how long, it'll go on and on
He's got no luck and not much else
An easy dollar never did come his way
You see him at the steps to the bar with someone else's guitar
Just before dawn, just before dawn, just before dawn
He's got some money comin' his way soon
He's gonna dance to a different tune
But he spent the last dollar, just before dawn
There's some blood on the street
And this night goes on forever
And he wonders what it'd be like in the desert
Just before dawn, just before dawn, just before dawn
Some people say he's just a gigolo
He's a free lovin' flirt, he's never been so low
Sometimes he wishes he'd never been there at all
Take another girl, lecherous and keen
Tell em what they want, you can tell em what they mean
Protector for a jezebel, love lost in the heat