I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)

Elton John

(Ann Orson/Carte Blanche)



-The B-side of "Grow Some Funk of Your Own". Both songs received airplay and

shared the peak position of #14 on the Billboard chart.



F.Y.I.: Robert Ford was the man who shot outlaw, Jesse James



Like a corn in a field I cut you down

I threw the last punch too hard

After years of goin' steady, well I thought that it was time

To throw in my hand for a new set of cards



And I can't take you dancin' out on the weekend

I figured we'd painted too much of this town

And I tried not to look as I walked to my wagon

And I knew then I had lost what should have been fou-nd

I knew then I had lost what should have been found



Chorus:



And I feel like a bullet in the gun of Robert Ford

I'm low as a paid assassin is

You know I'm cold as a hired sword

I'm so ashamed, can't we patch it up

You know I can't think straight no more

You make me feel like a bullet, honey, in the gun

In the gun of Robert Ford



Like a child when his toys have been stepped on

That's how it all seemed to me

I burst the bubble that both of us lived in

And I'm damned if I'll ever get rid of this guilt that I feel



And if looks could kill then I'd be a dead man

Your friends and mine don't call no more

Hell, I thought it was best but now I feel branded

Breaking up is sometimes like breakin' the law

Breaking up is sometimes like breakin' the law



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