Grateful Dead: Queen of Santa Fe II

Well you know I left my home when I was seventeen years of ageStarted hitch hiking from San Francisco down to L.A.And I, I met this man giving me a rideAnd finally got me by my side said, Hey son have a dime.I say, Thank you and he was on his waySo I got down in the big cities and I was trying to get myself a jobBut there wasnt no jobs aroundI couldnt seem to find anyway to make guineasAnd this man at the gas station, he says,Son you need yourself a job? and I said Mr. I surely do.He said Welcome in, I give you a dollar and a 1/4 an hourThats sure good handling that timeSo I worked in the gas station for a whileAnd I got myself a Plymouth mobile, yes I didThat was comin on pretty good up to one dayI kind of let down on my lovin down for a 1/4 an hourCouldnt go far out working overtime I need a lot of moneyThat lot of money I dont know what to doSo I met one of these guys whod walk around in the neighborhoodBehind this other gas station we figure wed check it out pretty goodSo we decided were gonna rob this gas stationBecause there was no other way ot get no moneyAnd then one night when there was no one aroundWe went over there on that side of townAnd we broke into that gas station and we robbed the cash registerAnd just at that time were making our escapeHere come a policeman walking up the streetHe yelled Halt! and we got scared we threw the money up in the airWe started running and he started tooHes hollering halt! and then he began to shoot. I was lucky I got over a fenceMy other friend made it around the corner, but my other buddy he went downAnd Michael you should have stopped when the man told youBecause if that bullet wouldnt have hit youYou would have been living and what Im trying to say nowIs that if you find yourself in a situationWhere you could get killed or you could live, Live if you criedHe didnt have to go down if he were to stopWe had some pride wouldnt let him quit that runninBut now Michaels in the ground. Michael why did you keep on runnin?Michael your pride done got you killedYou should have knowed that cop had a pistol on his sideWhy didnt you stop before you was killed?