[Verse] Too bad I hear you lost your dad To a quicker right hand last Sunday I look away to the center of town As a hammer comes down on a nail in the gallows I was standing in the road with a Colt in my right hand The devil on the left, your father in the middle Should have walked away when he called me out But it's a little too late [Chorus] As they pull the hood down over my eyes I think about the ones I left behind Friends, lovers and the others standing in the noonday sun Waiting to watch me hang Then it's a short drop and a sudden stop And the trapdoor swinging's the only thing that sounds like crying [Verse] If I had the chance to tell it over again The story wouldn't end like this I swear I.. I'd leave the stage and drop the rage The final page would end another way Promise young man not to be like me If there's death in the cards it's better to fold Heaven won't have a place for me The gates are locked, like the bars I hold [Chorus] As they pull the hood down over my eyes I think about the ones I left behind Friends, lovers and the others standing in the noonday sun Waiting to watch me hang Then it's a short drop and a sudden stop And the trapdoor swinging's the only thing that sounds like crying [Instrumental break] [Chorus] As they pull the hood down over my eyes I think about the ones I left behind Friends, lovers and the others standing in the noonday sun Waiting to watch me hang Then it's a short drop and a sudden stop And the trapdoor swinging's the only thing that sounds like crying Can't you hear it crying? (yeah)
