🎸 ONE CARD SHORT (OF A DEADMAN’S HAND) 🎸
Genre: Heavy Metal / Southern Doom
[Verse 1]
Whiskey burns like the hole in my chest
Ace and eight — I held the rest
In that smokey tomb where legends bled
But fate dealt silence, not the d**d
A ghost town deal in a haunted saloon
The Devil grinned beneath the moon
They said I was chosen, they said I would stand
But I’m one card short of the Deadman's Hand
[Pre-Chorus]
Ashes fall like broken sin
The hand was death... but I couldn’t win
[Chorus]
One card short, the curse won't sleep
It claws my mind, it cuts too deep
A gambler’s fate I can't command
One card short of the Deadman's Hand
Yeah!
[Verse 2]
Echoes scream from the old oak floor
Cold steel truth behind that door
They shot my soul, left me to crawl
Now I hunt the card that damned it all
Bullets whisper through the breeze
My shadow walks with haunted knees
Can't bury guilt in desert sand
When you're one card short of the Deadman's Hand
[Breakdown – Spoken/Whispered]
Ace of spades… two black eights…
The fourth card was drawn by the hand of fate…
But where’s the fifth? Where’s the seal of doom?
It’s missing still… in that b***d-soaked room…
[Solo – guitar wails like a banshee]
[Chorus]
One card short, the truth betrayed
The d**d don’t rest where debts are paid
I walk this land, a cursed, damned man
One card short of the Deadman's Hand
[Outro – Slow and Doom-Laden]
So deal me in, or deal me death
My final breath’s a vengeful breath
No peace, no light, no promised land…
Just one card short…
Of the Deadman’s Hand…
