I hate to leave you, babe, I just can't waste my time   You've got this jealous husband   I'm too, too young to die, I gotta move on away from 'round here   Just before the bullets fly      Always been a gambler takin' chances all my life   Smashin' those love affairs just like shootin' dice   I staged the game, girl that's what keeps me satisfied   And I can leave it in the nick of time just before the bullets fly      I lost my first bet when I was twenty-one   Found myself in New Orleans on the wrong end of a gun   The stakes keep getting higher but somehow I survive   By knowin' when the need became just before the bullets fly      I'm knowing when the need became   Just before the bullets fly, yeah   I'm knowing when the need became   Just before the bullets fly