the gunfighter song (demo) Lyrics

I'm gonna write a gunfighter song for the ones who never had a shot

For all the people who spit on the line between "have" and "have not"

You better run for your life when I'm coming down the line

Cause just like you took what's yours, I'm gonna take what's mine

Like Marsha died in the gutter

And Sylvia on the dock

And everything they need was behind a door that's locked

I think about it when I see our colors fly

I need to leave this world a little better by the time I die

I wanna write a gunfighter song for the ones who never had a shot

For all the people who spit on the line between "have" and "have not"

You better run for your life when I'm coming down the line

Cause just like you took what's yours, I'm gonna take what's mine

Like the tunnels of St. Vincent's under the sidewalks of New York

Or the streets of Minnesota where George Floyd was murdered by a cop

And you can keep your thoughts and prayers cause I'll pay no mind

Cause I'll believe they wanna see change when the pigs stop lying

I'm gonna write a gunfighter song for the ones who never had a shot

For all the people who spit on the line between "have" and "have not"

You better run for your life when I'm coming down the line

Cause just like you took what's yours, I'm gonna take what's mine

Now don't get me wrong, I think some people can change

But sitting down and asking nicely will always fail to rearrange

And if you only protest when they say it's ok

It was never a protest anyway

And if you don't learn from the past it'll happen again

And if you don't learn from the past it'll happen again

Yeah I'll write a gunfighter song for the ones who never had a shot

For all the people who spit on the line between "have" and "have not"

You better run for your life when I'm coming down the line

Cause just like you took what's yours, I'm gonna take what's mine