Saddle Storms - Borrowed Time
Borrowed Time | Saddle Storms | Outlaw Dreams Album
Doctors gave him years he already outlived. Turned out the gunfights weren't what finally got him.
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What's a gun to a man who's already dying? Doc Holliday spent most of his adult life on borrowed time — tuberculosis slowly taking what no gunfight ever could — and somehow that made him the steadiest man in any room he walked into. Borrowed Time is the Doc Holliday story told through the loyalty nobody talks about enough, the cough he folded away before anyone could see, and the quiet dignity of a man who faced his end without his boots on. The legend remembers the gunfighter. This song remembers the friend. - Original by Saddle Storms.
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Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
He coughed into a handkerchief
Folded it before anyone could see
Pale as a Sunday morning
Steady as a man could be
Doctors gave him a number of years
He outlived it more than once
Word got around a man like that
Don't scare easy, and don't bluff
[Pre-Chorus]
What's a gun to a man
Who's already dying
What's a threat
To borrowed time
[Chorus]
He'd stand beside you when nobody else would
Cough in his sleeve and steady his hand
Word was his bond, and his word never wavered
Even while his lungs turned to sand
Everybody thought they knew how this would end
A man like that don't get old, don't get gray
But the gunfights weren't what finally took him
Borrowed time don't run out that way
[Verse 2]
He'd laugh in the face of a man with a gun
Not 'cause he wasn't afraid
He just didn't have anything left to lose
That fear had already been paid
Friends knew if they needed somebody
Somebody who wouldn't run, wouldn't blink
He'd be there before they finished asking
He'd already be moving, calm as you think
[Pre-Chorus]
What's a gun to a man
Who's already dying
What's a threat
To borrowed time
[Chorus]
He'd stand beside you when nobody else would
Cough in his sleeve and steady his hand
Word was his bond, and his word never wavered
Even while his lungs turned to sand
Everybody thought they knew how this would end
A man like that don't get old, don't get gray
But the gunfights weren't what finally took him
Borrowed time don't run out that way
[Bridge]
Years past every gunfight
Years past every name he made
He was lying in a bed
In a room that was warm and still
No smoke, no noise, no enemy
Just the same cough he'd had for years
Finally finishing what it started
Long before anyone here
[Final Verse]
The story goes he looked down
At his own two feet, bare on the floor
Laughed and said this is funny
After everything — this is what's in store
A man who'd looked down a hundred barrels
Faced his end without his boots
That's the part the legend skips over
That's the part that's true
[Outro]
They called him a friend you could count on
Long after the coughing got worse
Loyal to the very last borrowed breath he had
And they called him
Doc Holliday
[End]
Written by Saddle Storms: https://SaddleStorms.com
About Saddle Storms: Wyoming-born outlaw country, western storytelling, rodeo soul, heartbreak ballads, and Code of the West honesty from six generations of ranch life.
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