Texas Heart Shot

from Ghosts by The Black Bullet Promise

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Music and Lyrics by Brian Fairbanks
2012 Ferocious Jones Music

Girls of custom
With withered fashion
They ride

Rehearsing sadness
They greedily
Pass me by

They come with stories
Glories of a
Spanish War

These little nothings
Melt the men off
The dance hall floor

Out of the corner of my eye it spins
And a Texas Heart Shot
Does him in

Sequins and harpies
Are worthless
To worthless men

She danced the part
He was quietly
Drowning in gin

She swore him nothing
Except the
Moonlight on the rails

You maybe something
I’ll return
If all else fails

As the stage lights begin to dim
A Texas Heart Shot
Does him in

I should have never left for San Anton’
I should have lain by the river
And never left home
We’re all changed
By the lives around us
Most of them random
But in the end they all find us

The word spread quickly
About a man
Who’d been shot from behind

But the world forgets quickly
Dust the dirt off and pays it
No mind

Somewhere with someone
He had hopes and dreams
That he shared

So we are all assassins
She just forgot that
And I never cared

With the prairie winds kicking in
They say a Texas Heart Shot
What done him in

And I feel nothing

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from Ghosts, released August 11, 2013
Written by Brian Fairbanks

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