# Track 5 – *Wildflower & the Gun* **Theme:** Building her own legend, justice, living free **Tempo:** Stomping, fierce, driving — pounding acoustic rhythm, banjo/fiddle, handclaps, distorted electric guitar entering the choruses ### [Intro] Well, they told the story wrong… They said she was a runaway. They said she was a thief. They said she was dangerous. They forgot to ask **who made her that way.** ### [Verse 1] Now I ride alone with the sun at my back No man beside me and no looking back I've got a black mare, a coat pulled tight And a silver moon riding with me tonight I know every road where the poor folk hide Every landlord's door and the thief inside Every rich man's table, every locked-up store Every hungry child they've forgotten before So I take from the greedy who've taken their share Leave food on the doorstep and coins in the square I don't steal for diamonds, I don't steal for gold I steal back a little from the hands that hold ### [Pre-Chorus] And if they come hunting Let 'em come and try I've outrun the law Under a hundred skies ### [Chorus] **I'm the wildflower and the gun** Born in the dark but I face the sun I'm the fire they couldn't put out I'm the woman they whisper about Wild as the wind and twice as free Nobody's ever gonna own me Let the whole damned country know my name **Wildflower rides — and Wildflower takes aim** ### [Verse 2] They say I'm a devil, they say I'm a thief Say I bring trouble wherever I breathe They say I'm a woman who should know her place I say, “Come closer and say that to my face” I've seen what your laws do to women like me I've seen what your prisons pretend not to see I've seen hungry children with nothing to eat While fat men drink whisky in houses with heat So call me a criminal, call me a fool Call me whatever you like from your gilded stool I'll sleep under stars while you bolt your door And wonder who's knocking when the night wind roars ### [Chorus] **I'm the wildflower and the gun** Born in the dark but I face the sun I'm the fire they couldn't put out I'm the woman they whisper about Wild as the wind and twice as free Nobody's ever gonna own me Let the whole damned country know my name **Wildflower rides — and Wildflower takes aim** ### [Verse 3] I don't need a gang and I don't need a king Don't need a preacher telling me anything Don't need a man with his hand on my waist Telling me where I can go or stay I've got a heart that has already bled I've slept in a cell and I've slept with the dead I've buried my fear in the mud by the road And learned how to carry my own heavy load I feed the hungry, I shelter the lost I'll pay my own price and I'll count up the cost And if some poor soul has nowhere to turn I'll give them my fire till their own fire burns ### [Bridge – Massive Build] **I was the girl they tried to silence!** **I was the girl they locked away!** **I was the fool who took the blame!** **Now they know my name!** I was somebody's daughter — Now I'm nobody's child! I was somebody's lover — Now I walk alone and wild! I was somebody's prisoner — Now I am nobody's slave! **You can write me in your wanted posters —** **I'll write my name across your grave!** ### [Breakdown] Hey! Tell the sheriff! Tell the preacher! Tell the rich man hiding behind his door! Wildflower's coming! ### [Final Chorus – Full Power] **I'm the wildflower and the gun** Born in the dark but I face the sun I'm the fire they couldn't put out I'm the woman they whisper about Wild as the wind and twice as free Nobody's ever gonna own me No crown, no chain, no master's name **Wildflower rides — remember the name!** I'm the wildflower! I'm the gun! I'm the road beneath the morning sun! I'm every woman who refused to bend! I'm the beginning where their story ends! **Wildflower rides!** **Wildflower rides!** And the road belongs to me! ### [Outro – Stomping] Wildflower strong… Wildflower free… No man's woman… No man's property… The road beneath me… The sky above… I don't need a crown… **I don't need their love.** **Wildflower rides.** **And Wildflower lives.**
