All alone in a room above a grocery store, trying to feel no pity The power was down and the lights were out In the heart of a cold, cold city The only light, coming in from the night Was from a searchlight up above A desperate woman, and a desperate man, they were stuck in desperate love They played their game and they felt no shame Living by their own rules Some called them crazy, some called them evil, some just called them fools They'd solemnly swore they'd just do one more Then they'd leave this life behind Now they're trapped in a room, that's laying heavy with doom Peaking through the window blind Chorus Desperate Love Desperate Love Desperate Love
Lying on the floor of the grocery store, is the owner with a gun in his hand Never stopped to figure, with your hand on the trigger, you're looking at a desperate man She came from the back with no sign of attack When her 38 spewed it's lead She was thinking of her lover, they were heading for cover Leaving him there for dead He was a stranger and she liked the danger, of living with a man on the run She was a loner, he thought he liked to own her, so he could say he had someone Now they're lying in the dark with two bullets in their heart As a search lamp shines from above A desperate woman and a desperate man, they were stuck in desperate love. Repeat Chorus