BURY ME WITH THE BULLETS

Intro

Verse 1 Don’t wash the blood out of my coat Don’t close the holes they made I want the Lord to see exactly What his silence couldn’t save Don’t let the preacher soften me With words I never lived I took this world the way it came And gave back what it gave

Pre-Chorus No borrowed suit No polished stone Don’t make me clean When I am gone

Chorus Bury me with the bullets Lay the iron by my side Put the ones that nearly killed me With the ones that kept me alive Bury me with the bullets Don’t you hide a single scar I didn’t crawl this damn far To die pretending who we are BURY ME— AS I AM

Verse 2 Put my boots beneath the coffin Mud and all, the leather torn They walked me out of burning houses And back through every storm Leave the whiskey on the headstone Leave the Bible closed and dry God had every chance to know me He can meet me when I arrive Don’t invite the men who loved me Only when I still could bleed A full church never meant a thing To a man who died in need

Chorus Bury me with the bullets Let the rust stain through the pine Every round still has a story Every story still is mine Bury me with the bullets Let the righteous call it wrong I carried death my whole damn life It can carry me back home

Bridge I don’t need A marble name I don’t need A clean escape Just carve these words Where dust can read: He never begged He never kneeled Bury me with the bullets Lay the iron by my side Put the ones that couldn’t break me With the man they couldn’t buy Bury me with the bullets No forgiveness, no disguise Let me face whatever’s waiting With the truth still in my eyes BURY ME— AS I AM! WITH THE BULLETS— IN MY HAND!

Outro Don’t send me empty-handed.

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