Coulda Been a Song Doctor

OK, if you don't know the song by Joe Ely Me and Billy the Kid, first you watch this You Tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11gxJDrcxq8

I always thought the key line toward the end of the song was "...but I didn't like the way he swayed in the wind when I played him his favorite song," but turns out that Joe wrote "...I did like...". What's that? Exactly what you would expect -- frameup, betrayal, and live happily ever after with the cute senorita in the triangle. I don't think so. Is that the way life works? No, Joe, the twist should be that after you betray Billy and he hangs, you are haunted by what you've done and you lie awake for hours, listening to the pocket watch tick and the wind howl. That's the twist of betrayal. The wages of sin, after all, should be at least guilt.