I didn't wanna shoot that man but he heard that I was fast
You know that liquour give you the courage to put a man to the ground
But nobody saw, I couldn't claim no self-defense
So I took off with the morning Sun, running from my sins
I ended up in every town where all the bad men go
And they've been runnin just like me, someone always knows
They say: Ain’t you the man who shot that boy? And want his turn to dance
So there I die in some street that night, no I never had a chance
Never meant to be a bad man, I just had a fast hand
Ain’t gonna be nothing in hell I haven’t lived through here
I'm just gonna walk out and wish you all goodnight
I never meant to be a bad man
I just had a fast hand
I ended up in Fort Worth ‘cause no one knows me here
And time has a funny way of taking away the years
I don’t mind the changes or the age that's in my face
Because there’s a piece of my soul
In every man I've killed, in every godforsaken place
Never meant to be a bad man
I just had a fast hand
Ain't gonna be nothing in hell I haven’t lived through here
I'm just gonna walk out, yeah tonight I'll save your life
I never meant to be a bad man
I just had a fast hand
I didn't wanna shoot that man but he heard that I was fast