All my life, yeah just about every night i saw my father as a drunken stranger, And i heard her cry just about every time she felt his anger, and it broke her body Six shots exploded through the action And i brought peace back into our home, Would his apologies be proven Well, i don't care and we'll never know So i walked away thinking his debt was paid but all i had was my mother, the shotgun and the blues (slide solo) So i walked away thinking his debt was paid but all i had was my mother, the shotgun and the blues But all i had was my mother, the shotgun and the blues