Dustin Welch

Lyrics & Stories Whisky Priest

Track 01

One False Move

Dustin Welch, Super Rooster Music (SESAC); Willy Braun, Fah-Q Music (BMI)

Is this what it comes down toHit or miss, it's either me or youAll we get is one false moveMy friend, we're gonna have to chooseSink or swim, it's either win or loseIn the end, there's one thing that is true

ChorusThat at first glance, we're still in the gameOh, there's a desperate chance that hope may still remainUntil we come to see the error of our waysWe're just one false move away

All the costs of our endless needsIdle thoughts, and wicked deedsLeft me lost with nothing to believeBut my foolish pride wouldn't let me leaveIf I tried, if I'd beg pleadAnd besides, there's no honor among thieves

Repeat chorus

My friend, you gonna have to chooseSink or swim, it's either win or loseIn the end, there's one thing that is true....

Repeat chorus

Played by

  • Dustin Welchresonator guitar, vocals
  • Drew Smithacoustic guitar, vocals
  • Kyle Ellisonelectric guitar
  • Trisha Keeferviolin
  • Joe Beckhamelectric bass
  • Joe Humeldrums

The story

I started this song at a time in my life where everything was really coming to a head. I had a friend and bandmate going off to rehab, me and my girlfriend at the time were splitting up, and it was looking like we were going to war in Iraq. I took the first couple verses and the basic chorus over to Willie Braun, from Reckless Kelly, who was hanging out at my dad's house in Nashville one day while they were in town, and we sat down in the living room and knocked it out. That is, except for one line in the chorus which I could not be satisfied with. The next time I was in Austin, we got together the day I was gonna leave, and beat our heads together over it till it was time for me to hit the road. The car I was driving in those days didn't have a radio, so I spent most of the next twelve hours on the highway trying to get the line, until I was about 20 miles out of Nashville with the sun about to start coming up, when out of the blue I said to myself, "Until we come to see the error of our ways, We're just one false move away."