When the Pin Hits the Shell (Remixed / Remastered)

[Verse 1]
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

[Verse 2]
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 gotta 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

[Verse 3]
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
'Cause it's enough to make a man not wanna be nobody's daddy
When all he thinks he's got left to hand down is guilt and shame

[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

[Outro]
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