(A) Billy was a strong man, you could (C) tell by his rugged (D) hands and his old (A) tattoos (A) 20 years he worked the mill (C) but it never was (D) enough when the bills came (A) due Billy was good man, for his family’s sake he always did come through Billy was an honest man, but it’s hard to say what a desperate man will do
CH (E) So it should come as no (A) surprised (E) The things a desperate man will (A) try (E) When the future of his (D) family’s on the (A) line
Well I bet you’d do the same Risk a number for your name If you had the chance to see that sick girl smile
Billy checked his watch again but he knew the armored truck came in at four When the time came he was ready, with a shotgun he kicked open the door “Just give up the money, get down now and relax there on the floor” He took what he could carry, just enough to buy his little girl a cure
Billy is a lonely man, from town to town he roams with out a home Fifteen years of running, but it’s been worth every mile to see her grown He writes her every Sunday from a somewhere off the map and all alone Billy was a good man, and he gave her life at the high cost of his own credits from In The Shadows, released 12 December 2008