Harder Cards

<br>(Craig Wiseman/Michael Henderson)<br><br>Well the hammer fell down on a forty-four primer<br>Now there`s one less problem in South Carolina tonight<br>Wrong or right<br><br>She just looked at me as she finished her tale<br>And her blank expression went another shade pale of grey<br>There was nothin` to say<br>In the shadows of her face, I saw the scars<br>That you get when you live where love is hard<br>And she said<br><br>Don`t you sit and judge me<br>From some high and mighty seat<br>Don`t you shrug off<br>Until you`ve walked a mile in my bare feet<br>`Cause there are people that you pass by every day<br>With harder cards than yours in life to play<br><br>Well I put the cuffs on her<br>And I put her in the car<br>And I walked in and he was on the floor<br>Stone dead<br>Shot in the head<br><br>There were whiskey bottles and dope by his chair<br>And a starving baby with nothin` to wear<br>But tears<br>You know, the picture was clear<br><br>He had finally pushed her farther than the line<br>And the badge i wore had lost all of it`s shine<br><br>Don`t you sit and judge me<br>From some high and mighty seat<br>Don`t you shrug off<br>Until you`ve walked a mile in my bare feet<br>`Cause there are people that you pass by every day<br>With harder cards than yours in life to play<br><br>Well I stood there thinkin` how justice was blind<br>But I didn`t see any and I could see just fine<br>And I made up my mind<br><br>So I took the cuffs off her<br>And I took her back in<br>I wiped off the gun<br>And wrapped it in his right hand<br>Where it should`ve been<br><br>And the morning paper told in black and white<br>Just another senseless case of suicide<br>Oh, just a suicide<br><br>Oh but don`t you sit and judge me<br>From some high and mighty seat<br>Don`t you shrug off<br>Until you`ve walked a mile on my beat<br>`Cause there are people that you pass by every day<br>With harder cards than yours in life to play<br><br>Yeah the hammer fell down on a forty-four primer<br>Now there`s one less problem in South Carolina tonight