Last night I dreamed we was running through the outlands   Tears streaming, your pretty face all a wreck   (I held your daddy's gun in my tremblin' hands   And down the highway another stranger comes   You gotta take 'em baby when they come.      Little girl put on your best dress   'Cause we're goin' out on the town tonight   (Better bring along your switchblades)   'Cause for sure some fool's gonna wanna fight   You've got to take 'em baby as they come      CHORUS      You gotta take 'em, take 'em as they come, girl   Take 'em as they come, girl   Take 'em as they come, girl   Take 'em baby as they come      God save the rider in the black night   Save the man who taught that it was right   To do what they have done   To become what we have become   You gotta take 'em when they come   Little girl, gone are the days   Faded away into a clear blue night   And all the vows that we made   Lie shattered and broken in the morning light;   You gotta take 'em when they come      CHORUS      I know your heart is breaking   I can feel it too   Though my finger on the trigger's shakin'   Here I swear to you   If I could take all your sorrow so that you'd never cry, girl, or be blue   (Come tommorow)   That's what I'd do for you, pretty one   I swear I'll take 'em baby when they come      CHORUS