HATE IS CHEAP

I felt the warmth of the sun falling beneath good Heaven's thumb

There was the shot of a dead man's gun, his eyes askew with the Devil's web has spun

He paid half price for love and peace, behind him, a man was cheap

He bought his shares of pain and hate, for a hand that's rang for free

"Life is cheap", he told me, with a glitter in his eye

Now that light's a'faded, with the demons of whiskey and rye

Penance with a rusty musket and a shot of lead to the eye

Fire burns in his secluded sky, to hang his heart to dry

"Life's too short to live in burden", I inquired with a lie

He pushed me aside to another place, where his sin is free

And love half price

But that man was cheap, now counting sheep

Eternally in forever sleep.