One Bullet Short of a Thought Worth Keeping

I sat down where the sun gave out, Laid my gun and doubt side by side Counted rounds and what I lost — Turns out they weigh the same in cost

The trigger’s light, my head is full, Of things I swore were mine to pull But every name slips through the smoke, Like voices gone before they spoke

One bullet short of a thought worth keeping One dream died, and the rest went creeping The hammer’s back, the world’s gone thin — I don’t recall how long it’s been If peace is real, it ain’t worth weeping — I’m one bullet short of a thought worth keeping

I found a note I’d wrote in blood, Signed with a name I can’t make up My horse don’t follow when I call, Guess even beasts forget us all

She said I’d leave before I cracked — But madness moves, it don’t ride back Now I just sit, the chamber bare, Talkin’ to ghosts that ain’t even there

One bullet short of a thought worth keeping Just dust and noise and silent pleading My hands still work, but faith don’t spark — This world keeps turning past the dark I ain’t afraid, I just feel leaking — One bullet short of a thought worth keeping

I had a plan, or so I thought… But thinking’s what the silence caught

One bullet short of a thought worth keeping The road ran out, the edge keeps steeping I smile like someone halfway gone, Like memory’s fading into dawn I never had the gift of sleeping — Just one bullet short of a thought worth keeping

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