Come Hell or High Noon

Intro Clock's at eleven. I got one hour to walk away. I won't.

Verse 1 They cleared the street the minute I rode through Shutters drawn, and the preacher starts to pray There's a man down there owes a debt that's due And the noon sun's climbin' like it's on my way I didn't come for talk, I came to close a tab Twenty years of runnin' ends today He can draw first, he can beg, he can grab — Don't change a thing about the price he's gotta pay

Chorus Come hell or high noon I'll be standin' in that street The clock strikes twelve, they dig one grave And brother, it ain't for me

Verse 2 Sweat on his lip, dust on my boot Two shadows gettin' shorter on the ground He's countin' on my mercy — that's a lie he'll rue 'Cause I left my mercy in the last town

Chorus Come hell or high noon I'll be standin' in that street The clock strikes twelve, they dig one grave And brother, it ain't for me

Bridge Every clock in this town holds its breath Every dog's gone quiet in the heat There's a kind of peace a man makes with death When he knows he's the last thing you'll meet Come hell or high noon I'll be standin' in that street The clock strikes twelve, they dig one grave And brother, it ain't for me

Outro Noon. Right on time.

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