When the Pin Hits the Shell

[written by Earl Hicks and Patterson Hood] You can lie to your mama, you can lie to your race But you can't lie to nobody with that cold steel in your face And the same God you were so afraid was gonna send you to Hell Is the same one you're gonna answer to when the pin hits the shell... Well your sister's been blamin' everybody And I don't blame her, man, I guess I'd do the same If you were my brother, man, I'd prob'ly stand by you But you ain't, man, so I got to go my way [Chorus} And I ain't gonna crawl up on no high horse Cause I got thrown off of one When I was young, and I ain't no cowboy So I ain't going where I don't belong It wouldn't do you no good to let you know That it damn near killed me too So I ain't gonna mourn for you, man Now that you're gone Me and you, we liked our pills and our whiskey But you don't want your head full of either one When the house gets quiet and dark Feeling good, it used to come so damn easy Racing trains from Second Street to Avalon Take a trip down memory lane, you don't see no friendly faces All the houses have been painted and nobody knows your name It's enough to make a man not want to be nobody's daddy When all he thinks he's got left to hand down is guilt and shame [Chorus] You can lie to your mama, you can lie to your race But you can't lie to nobody with that cold steel in your face And the same God you were so afraid was gonna send you to Hell Is the same one you're gonna answer to when the pin hits the shell...