This is a song about a motorcycle riding outlaw. He drifts from town to town. In one town, while playing cards, one of the other card players tried to pull a gun and so our outlaw shot him, got back on his motorcycle and quickly sped off before the police could catch him. He knows they’re not far behind him but he, like most criminals, he realizes his luck one day will run out. He knows that one day the law will catch up to him but he states he won’t go down alone, meaning there will be a gun fight where he hopes to take some lawmen to hell with him.