Ride Like Nat Love

Black hat

Black heart

Dust on my shoes

Whole crew play the outlaw part (yeah)

I grew up where the fences lean

Houses half fixed, pockets half a dream

Mama in the kitchen, bills in a pile

I was counting up scars, counting every mile

Heard stories ‘bout riders that took what they need

No sheriff ever showed, just hunger and greed

So I studied them legends, Nat Love on the page

Then I wrote my own chapter, inked it on the stage (hey)

I ride like Nat Love, out the mud, out the gutter

Turn a back road kid to a diamond under pressure

Whole gang by my side, that’s my tribe, that’s my brothers

On a long dark trail where we only got each other

I ride like Nat Love, if they doubt, let ‘em doubt it

We was born in the dust, made a crown up about it

From the dirt to the throne, every mile, every cut

I ride like Nat Love, ain’t nobody gonna cut us off

Used to flip little packs just to flip the rent

Laid low from the law, heart cold, half bent

Had a circle of misfits, scars for a crest

We was broke but we dressed like we run the whole West

Turn a cracked front porch to a council hall

Talk plans, talk pain, turn a loss to a haul

Every run, every risk, every late-night plot

Was a train that we grabbed, pulled it straight from the lot (skrrt)

I ride like Nat Love, out the mud, out the gutter

Turn a back road kid to a diamond under pressure

Whole gang by my side, that’s my tribe, that’s my brothers

On a long dark trail where we only got each other

I ride like Nat Love, if they doubt, let ‘em doubt it

We was born in the dust, made a crown up about it

From the dirt to the throne, every mile, every cut

I ride like Nat Love, ain’t nobody gonna cut us off

Yeah, I know ‘bout wanted posters

Wrong face on the front, same story on the shoulders

Judge me by the jacket, not the heart I hide

They don’t see how many nights I kept my people alive (nah)

Every scar on my hand like a line in a map

Every friend in my gang know I’m dyin’ for that

If the sun go down and we still not done

We just tighten them reins and we ride ‘til it come (ride)

I ride like Nat Love, out the mud, out the gutter

Turn a back road kid to a diamond under pressure

Whole gang by my side, that’s my tribe, that’s my brothers

On a long dark trail where we only got each other

I ride like Nat Love, if they doubt, let ‘em doubt it

We was born in the dust, made a crown up about it

From the dirt to the throne, every mile, every cut

I ride like Nat Love, ain’t nobody gonna cut us off (nah)