Harder Cards - Hit Co. Masters

Well the hammer fell down

On a forty four primer

Now there's one less problem

In South Carolina tonight

Wrong or right

She just looked at me

And she finished her tale

Blank expression

Went another shade pale of grey

There was nothin' to say

In the shadows of her face

I saw the scars

That you get when you live

Where love is hard

And she said

Don't you sit and judge me

From some high and mighty seat

Don't you shrug it off

Until you've walked a mile in my bare feet

There are people

That you pass by every day

With harder cards than yours

In life to play

Well I put the cuffs on her

And I sat her in the car

Walked him sad and slay on the floor

Stone dead

Shot in the head

There's whiskey bottles and d**e by his chair

A starving baby nothin' to wear

But tears

So the picture was clear

He had finally pushed away across the line

And the badge I wore was lost all of it's shine

She said don't you sit and judge

From some high and mighty seat

Don't you shrug it off

Until you've walked a mile in my bare feet

There are people that you pass by every day

With harder cards than yours in life to play

Now I stood there thinkin' how justice was blind

That thirty five years or long to read aside

So I made up my mind

I took the cuffs off her

And I walk her back in

I wiped the gun off

And wrapped it in his right hand

Where it should've been

And the morning paper read in black and white

Just another senseless case of suicide

A suicide

Oh but don't you sit and judge

From some high and mighty seat

Don't you shrug it off

Until you've walked a mile on my beat

There are people that you pass by every day

With harder cards than yours in life to play

Well the hammer fell down on a forty four primer

Now there's one less problem in South Carolina

Tonight