I went to a partynThe party came to nothingnI got there early and I drank for dear lifenI met a girl therenShe looked like the Virgin MarynShe had a tatoo that looked like a gunnI'm sure that there were other people at this partynBut I couldn't tell you who and neither could shenShe had a stun-gun, a lasso, and a tractor beamnAnd we were locked on target when I threw away my keysnnAnd I wouldn't trade that night for a sky-blue '57nBy seven come eleven we were leanin' on the dawnnSkippin past the salt pillarsnWhere everybody turns backnHell-bent and heart-first into the great long gonennLazy drunken moonnPassed out in the branchesnA fit of stars in my favorite piece of skynAnd as the night stood still beside usnWe used that perfect moment to talk about nMiami Vice's pilot episodenCause it really didn't matternWe were already junkiesn15 minutes in we were retarded in lovenAnd they say love is like the moviesnBut it felt more like a cartoonnI got a halo of star and an anvil on my headnnnAnd I wouldn't trade that night for a sky-blue '57nBy seven come eleven we were leanin' on the dawnnSkippin past the salt pillarsnWhere everybody turns backnHell-bent and heart-first into the great long gonenHell-bent and heart-first into the great longnnFive years have passed nownLike unopened lettersnI setteled down and took that girl for my wifenWe both work hard to feed the childrennBut our dreams are slowly starvingnNothing scars you deeper than the things you haven't donenBut in the cool of the eveningnWe fall together burningnWe never bring up the things we set asidenCause it was worth all the hard timesnWorth all that heartachenHell, it was worth it all if it was only for that nightnnAnd I wouldn't trade that night for a sky-blue '57nBy seven come eleven we were leanin' on the dawnnSkippin' past the salt pillarsnWhere everybody turns backnHell-bent and heart-first into the great long gonenHell-bent and heart-firstnHell-bent and heart-firstnHell-bent and heart-first into the great long