[Verse 1]
Dust on my boots
Blood on my buckle
Learned how to smile
Right through the struggle
Barstool Bible
Half-torn page
Tattooed knuckles
Holding my rage
Mama said soften
I hardened instead
Every "I love you"
Just messed with my head
[Chorus]
I’m cold as the canyon
Stone in my chest
Heart like a pistol
I keep it suppressed
I don’t feel nothin’
That’s what I tell ’em, though
I’m a heartless cowboy
Ride till it’s time to go
[Verse 2]
Sleep with my back
Flat to the wall
Call it survival
I just call it all
Every goodbye
Carved into bone
Turned that hurt
Into barbed-wire tone
I gave up hopin’
On soft summer plans
Now it’s hard liquor truth
In these cracked-up hands
[Chorus]
I’m cold as the canyon
Stone in my chest
Heart like a pistol
I keep it suppressed
I don’t feel nothin’
That’s what I tell ’em, though
I’m a heartless cowboy
Ride till it’s time to go
[Bridge]
Yeah, pain made a ghost
Outta every warm thought (every warm thought)
So I laugh at the loss
Like it don’t hurt a lot (don’t hurt a lot)
If love comes lookin’
It won’t find home
Just boot prints fading
In dust and bone
[Chorus]
I’m cold as the canyon
Stone in my chest
Heart like a pistol
I keep it suppressed
I don’t feel nothin’
That’s what I tell ’em, though
I’m a heartless cowboy
Ride till it’s time to go
Yeah, I’m a heartless cowboy
Guess that’s all I’ll ever know