Under The Gun (For Jeffery Lee Pierce) Songtext / Lyric

I still can picture him

His hands in his back pockets

He wasn't much for words

But when the wise kids made a racket

He just had to go downtown

Throw his weight around

Force starting over

Say, did you hear that con I play

Some guys I know from LA

We're on the Rio Grande

I'll pay you back next Friday

You know it sure ain't hay

Just some cat's eye day

They said they knew the way

Oh, desperado

Why don't you spend your life

In Colorado

A restless shadow

Out in the blue hills

You're feeling hollow

Oh El Diablo

Why did you spend your life

In California

I should have warned ya

No place to go now

For falling over

Some guys can't make it on the run