[Verse 1]
Spur marks fading on the red dirt road
Smoke from the canyon still on my coat
Name on a wanted sign flaps in the dawn
Every mile I ride
One more line gone
[Chorus]
I’m the outlaw
Hat pulled low
Dust in my teeth
Nowhere to go
Got a past like a shadow that won’t let me be
Every ridge
Every river keeps talkin’ to me
Yeah
The law’s ridin’ hard
But it’s harder to run
From the man I was
And what I’ve done
I’m the outlaw
The outlaw on the run
[Verse 2]
Pocket full of letters that I never did send
Her tear-stained ink sayin’ “come home again”
But a stolen horse and a dead man’s gold
Turn a good boy’s heart to iron and cold
[Chorus]
I’m the outlaw
Hat pulled low
Dust in my teeth
Nowhere to go
Got a past like a shadow that won’t let me be
Every ridge
Every river keeps talkin’ to me
Yeah
The law’s ridin’ hard
But it’s harder to run
From the man I was
And what I’ve done
I’m the outlaw
The outlaw on the run
[Bridge]
[Band drops softer
Close vocal]
If I crossed that line back to our front gate (oh)
Would her porch light burn or would it turn away
So I ride that line between wrong and right
Prayin’ one more sunrise buys me one more night
[Chorus]
I’m the outlaw
Hat pulled low
Dust in my teeth
Nowhere to go
Got a past like a shadow that won’t let me be
Every ridge
Every river keeps talkin’ to me
Yeah
The law’s ridin’ hard
But it’s harder to run
From the man I was
And what I’ve done
I’m the outlaw
Yeah
I’m the outlaw on the run