Drive-By Truckers - When the Pin Hits the Shell [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[written by Earl Hicks and Patterson Hood]

You can lie to your mama, you can lie to your race
But you can't lie to nobody with that cold steel in your face
And the same God you were so afraid was gonna send you to Hell
Is the same one you're gonna answer to when the pin hits the shell...

Well your sister's been blamin' everybody
And I don't blame her, man, I guess I'd do the same
If you were my brother, man, I'd prob'ly stand by you
But you ain't, man, so I got to go my way

[Chorus}
And I ain't gonna crawl up on no high horse
Cause I got thrown off of one
When I was young, and I ain't no cowboy
So I ain't going where I don't belong
It wouldn't do you no good to let you know
That it damn near killed me too
So I ain't gonna mourn for you, man
Now that you're gone

Me and you, we liked our pills and our whiskey
But you don't want your head full of either one
When the house gets quiet and dark
Feeling good, it used to come so damn easy
Racing trains from Second Street to Avalon

Take a trip down memory lane, you don't see no friendly faces
All the houses have been painted and nobody knows your name
It's enough to make a man not want to be nobody's daddy
When all he thinks he's got left to hand down is guilt and shame

[Chorus]

You can lie to your mama, you can lie to your race
But you can't lie to nobody with that cold steel in your face
And the same God you were so afraid was gonna send you to Hell
Is the same one you're gonna answer to when the pin hits the shell...