Dust, Iron, and a Grudge

Intro Folks ask me what a man needs out here. I only ever carried three things.

Verse 1 Don't need a badge, don't need a name Don't need a woman waitin' by a light Traded all my soft years for the game And the game only pays a man in spite Got sand in my teeth and a debt in my chest A pistol that's older than the town The law rode out, said "good luck with the rest" — So I keep my own kind of order 'round

Chorus Dust, iron, and a grudge That's all a man like me needs The law gave up, so did the judge Now the desert keeps the deeds

Verse 2 They wrote me off in every county line Put my face on paper, called me through But paper burns and posses run out of time And a grudge, well — a grudge sees a thing through

Chorus Dust, iron, and a grudge That's all a man like me needs The law gave up, so did the judge Now the desert keeps the deeds

Bridge You can outrun a lawman, outrun a rope Outrun the stories they tell at night But you can't outrun a man who quit on hope — He's got nothin' left to lose but the fight Dust, iron, and a grudge That's all a man like me needs The law gave up, so did the judge Now the desert keeps the deeds

Outro Dust settles. The grudge don't.

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