Harder Cards

(Craig Wiseman/Michael Henderson)
 Well the hammer fell down on a forty-four primer
 Now there's one less problem in South Carolina tonight
 Wrong or right
 She just looked at me as she finished her tale
 And her blank expression went another shade pale of grey
 There was nothin' to say
 In the shadows of her face, I saw the scars
 That you get when you live where love is hard
 And she said
 Don't you sit and judge me
 From some high and mighty seat
 Don't you shrug off
 Until you've walked a mile in my bare feet
 'Cause there are people that you pass by every day
 With harder cards than yours in life to play
 Well I put the cuffs on her
 And I put her in the car
 And I walked in and he was on the floor
 Stone dead
 Shot in the head
 There were whiskey bottles and dope by his chair
 And a starving baby with nothin' to wear
 But tears
 You know, the picture was clear
 He had finally pushed her farther than the line
 And the badge i wore had lost all of it's shine
 Don't you sit and judge me
 From some high and mighty seat
 Don't you shrug off
 Until you've walked a mile in my bare feet
 'Cause there are people that you pass by every day
 With harder cards than yours in life to play
 Well I stood there thinkin' how justice was blind
 But I didn't see any and I could see just fine
 And I made up my mind
 So I took the cuffs off her
 And I took her back in
 I wiped off the gun
 And wrapped it in his right hand
 Where it should've been
 And the morning paper told in black and white
 Just another senseless case of suicide
 Oh, just a suicide
 Oh but don't you sit and judge me
 From some high and mighty seat
 Don't you shrug off
 Until you've walked a mile on my beat
 'Cause there are people that you pass by every day
 With harder cards than yours in life to play
 Yeah the hammer fell down on a forty-four primer
 Now there's one less problem in South Carolina tonight