Shot Full of Holes

He's twenty one and jealous of the shadow outside the fence

Got a bible from his cellmate he's searching for a second chance

Hopes than he can make it outside before his little girl learns to talk

Hopes he can get it all figured out before the judge says that he can walk

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Cause it's hotwired, too tired from being who he's been

Car theft, what's left he ain't ever going back again

He ain't never going back to tie himself to the whipping pole

His American dream's like the county line sign that he shot full of holes

And two to four don't seem like much till you're stuck in an eight by ten

He felt guilty damn near all his life and much more now than then

He wrote a letter to Jesus last night and he nailed it up to the cross

Yeah he's free in his heart but at night in the dark, you know the man he's still the boss

Chorus

He walked through the gate last Thursday and headed on into town

What did he see but a Cadillac there with all it's windows down

Chorus 2:
And it's broke down, hands bound and it's back to who he was

No change it seems strange, it ain't ever been push or shove

And now he's going back to tie himself to the whipping pole

And his American dream the county sign that he shot full of holes