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Chuck Mead
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Gun Metal Gray
I was a buck toothed, white trash, sleepy-eyed milltown kid Nobody ever took a note of nothing that I ever did I was sneaking a sip from my Daddy's corn liquor still Hiding out by the river with the moon and the whippoorwill
The leaves started cracklin' in the woods something coming my way I ducked behind a willow and threw that whiskey bottle away I heard a voice cuttin' through the darkness chilled me to the bone Like a Sunday morning sermon spitting out fire and brimstone
I never saw what happened I never saw a thing It went down so fast in a flash Of gun-metal gray
For the next thirty seconds the crickets didn't even breathe Then I bent back the branches 'cause I knew I had to take a peek I saw a big black boot on a shovel break the cold hard ground And a man on a mission making sure there wasn't nothing found
He never saw me looking 更多更详尽歌词 在 ※ Mojim.com 魔镜歌词网 And I never said a thing But that one night wrong and right Turned gun-metal gray
Maybe I should've run straight to the Sheriff And sung like a bird said I know what he done The next day everybody's talking 'bout the preacher's young wife Skipping town with the deacon's son
Twenty years later I'm the man no one claims to know But when they need a little something they know exactly where to go And as for the preacher he's still packing them in the pews Would they be singing Hallelujah if I told them everything I knew
We all got secrets to keep We'll all have hell to pay Nothing 'bout life is black and white It's gun-metal gray
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