Gunpowder at Dawn Lyrics

Showed up to deer camp with my rifle and my bag

Wet behind the ears, gonna become a man

Waited my turn, waited thirteen long years

Cause this ain't no place for a child I've been told

This ain't no place for a child

Old men with cigars losing at cards

Playboys and Skoal cans they littered the floor

Lord, how they littered the floor

I see all your secrets bet all my innocence

Just a kid, learning all the right ways to sin

Just a kid, learning to sin

Never seen my old man in the shape that he's in

Even Superman needs a drink now and then

Surrounded by heroes, booze on their breath

Laughing at things I don't know

As they slurred through politics

In their minds I'll always be frozen in time

Just a boy looking up to their bloodshot eyes

Just a boy looking up to their eyes

The chorus gets louder as talk turns to the morn

Like a drunken congregation filled with midnight fire

The beer I've been sneaking gets easier to drink

I feel the warmth flow through my veins

I feel the warmth as it flows through my veins

We're just killing time until sunrise arrives

But I hope that morning don't come

I hope that morning don't come

Last thing I remember was Danny cleaning his gun

Tellin' me "dreams are all you got now, son,

Don't ever let them die son"

Brushed off his barrel, not looking my way

Bitching about the rust from leaving it in the rain

From leaving it all in the rain

Nothing lasts forever, morning came in a flash

Pounding heads, we headed out to the stands

Crisp fresh snow and the November wind

Burned through my clothes left a hole in my skin

Burned through my clothes left a hole

Bitter black coffee, first time on my tongue

Remington shotgun weighed down with slugs

Remington shotgun weighed down

Ready to wait, just as long as it takes

To prove that this boys now a man

To prove that your boys now a man

The sunrise came up just over the trees

There she was standing with her baby fawn

Just standing with her baby fawn

A shot rang out, disturbed the peace

My hands they shook my ears rang like a bell

And I smelled

gunpowder at dawn