Promises In Pieces

I saw Jesus in the corner, he was talking to my friend.

They both looked my way and turned around.

I guess I should remember all the trouble that I've been.

It's just promises in pieces on the ground.

I was drunk and tired and busted the day he took me in,

And offered me protection from myself.

I guess I should have told him I'm no kind of friend.

But I think that he found out the day I left.

Cause I took the money in the wallet on the table by the door.

I took the pistol that he told me he kept locked inside the drawer.

I took off before the sun came up, didn't see him anymore.

I was killing time in Reno when the snow fell on the ground,

And I was counting up what little I had left

Told that bartender to pour me one more.round.

I laid a ten down on the bar and then I kept one for myself.

I walked across the street in daylight with that pistol in my jeans.

Walked up and told the teller "I don't want to cause a scene

Just put the money in this suitcase. We can do this nice and clean.”

Well I was almost to the front door when I heard those sirens scream.

They were just around the corner coming fast.

Looked back at that teller, he was looking right at me.

I just watched him fall as I let that pistol blast.

And I ducked back in the alley. Man I never turned around,

And I heard all their voices as they tried to track me down

I threw the pistol in that river. Caught the first train leaving town.

At a hotel out by Carson Lake I was trying to lay low,

When I heard some locals talking in the hall.

It seems they'd caught the man who’d robbed that Wells Fargo.

Up in Reno you don't mess around with the law.

Well I guess my friend came looking just like he'd done before.

They’d already found his pistol that had washed up on the shore

Yesterday they hanged the man. I couldn't run anymore

I saw Jesus in the corner he was talking to my friend.

They both looked my way and turned around.

I guess I should remember all the trouble that I've been.

It's just promises in pieces on the ground.

It's just promises in pieces on the ground.