They Know My Name

Sun risin’ slow

And I got the hammer down

Fire in the trees

Blood on the ground

Should have been a milk run

Should have been an easy one

He was closing up shop and no one around

And when they get that call

And when the radio sounds

Be the whole damn world

State county and town

 

Sister she’s a teacher

Up in Omaha

Daddy was a preacher

Til we lost the farm

Brother was a soldier came back a hero with his mind all gone

And the line gets thicker

And nobody can figure how I went wrong

 

They say the path is long and narrow

Up to heaven’s gate

But there’s a fire down below and a wider road

And they know my name

 

If I could start all over

I’d give it everything I got

And now I’m gunnin’ for the county line

And I know first one I see I’m caught

She don’t know but she might believe ‘em

And I pray she just don’t answer that door

And all the love in the world and the money on the seat

Don’t seem to mean that much no more

 

They say the path is long and narrow

Up to heaven’s gate

But there’s a fire down below and a wider road

And they know my name

 

You know the last time I shot him

​I didn’t even hear the gun

I didn’t see the shells a fallin’

I didn’t even think to run

You know the last time I seen her

I didn’t even hold her close

And now it’s too late and never

I didn’t think she’d ever know

I didn’t think she’d ever know