Dirt Poor Robins - I Shot A Man lyrics

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I shot a man, I heard him fall

I heard his desperate dying call

I saw his eyes grow dim in shade

I saw his color drain and fade

I didn't know that final blow

Would claim his life and end it so

I wash and wash to clean these hands

Because I shot a man

I shot a man, now all I see

Is red, the shade of history

It's love and blood and hate the same

It burns my conscience with it's flame

I couldn't tell the requiem bell

Would ring and bring this living hell

Now heaven's hights I cannot span

Because I shot a man

I shot a man because I knew

My darkest depths he peered into

He saw inside this heart of sin

He saw inside and still climbed in

He looked at me and I could see

The cost of immortality

I shot him through the feet and hands

My God, oh God, I shot a man.