No Judgement Day (hidden track)

Gary Allan · It Would Be You [Decca] [1998]

Willie Johnson was locking up his store Monday night

And someone snuck in and they commenced a fight

His wife Emilia found him lying on the freezer floor

Now this sleepy little town, it ain't sleepin' no more.



Sheriff Walker holds three local boys in jail

They confessed right down to the last detail

They beat Willie with a bat, he was 70 years old

Then they bought some beer with the six dollars they stole.



Well, I know my anger is not politically cool

But, brother we're in danger

When kids can be so cruel as to kill for play

Dear God have mercy

We're livin' just like there's no judgment day.



Billy Haney is the youngest of the three accused

His grandpa got him as a baby, hungry and abused

But no one guessed the depth of his emotional scars

Till we saw him on the news grinning like a movie star.



Well, I know my anger is not politically cool

But, brother we're in danger

When we can be so cruel as throw our kids away

Dear God have mercy

We're living just like there's no judgment day.



Today the headlights lined up in the drizzling rain

To the graveyard stretched a five mile chain

And we laid to rest one of this town's sweetest souls

And we buried the peace we know in that very same hole...