Gunslinger

from Gunslingers by The Shy Guys

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The sun hits my brow, but I can't stop to rest. I'm out of excuses all out of breath. For so many years, I've suffered on my own. Now that we're one from many, my fears have only grown. I can't be trusted. I can't be loved. Don't think you'll be spared from horror by forces from above. Is this not friendship? This is Ka-Tet. To think of me as "friend" is an act you might regret.

I am Roland. I am Gunslinger. I am moving with the Beam towards the Dark Tower. I am Roland. I am the last. I am the ever-dimming image of a long-forgotten past.

I wish I could tell you that I won't let you die, but considering my past, I know that it's a lie. On that night of Reaping when they took her away, I wished it was me. It couldn't be that way. There was no pardon, 'twas no goodbye. We rode into the sunset and I left my love to die. I don't regret it. I never could. Sometimes this quest for goodness leaves no room to be good.

O friends, why can't you see that Ka is guiding me? These choices: not my own. Every footprint in the desert brings us closer to the bone. I must cry your pardon, o victims of martyrdom. I beg thee: save thy breath, for Mono is but Charlie, and Char means only death...

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from Gunslingers, released March 31, 2001

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The Shy Guys were:
Charles Camacho
Chadd Derkins
Chris Grivet
Jonnie Whoa Oh

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