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DEAD MAN WALKING
Deadfolk Prophet
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Whole town went still when we crossed that line
Moon cut thin like a switchblade sign
No sermon
No warning
Just black-hat breath and a bad moon morning
I came in draggin' night by the throat of my coat
With a matchbox grin and a kill-switch note
Main street shook like it knew my tread
Like the dirt itself heard what the old folks said
They said don't look long when the tall one grins
That's the kind of face that remembers sins
That's the kind of calm that don't come clean
That's a man-shaped storm in a deadwood dream
I got old brass luck and a dead-eyed drawl
Make the room lean back when my shadow fall
Ain't here for mercy, ain't here for grace
Just got six cold thoughts and a half-lit face
Sheriff went stiff with a hand near lead
Saloon girl laughed like a prayer gone red
Piano man missed half the notes he played
When I cracked that hush like a rusted blade
No badge gonna bless me
No preacher gonna warn me
I been kissed by the dark and it fit me just warmly
If the night got a name, let it answer mine
I don't knock when I enter, I arrive on time
Dead man walkin' with a live wire grin
Black dust boots and a wicked wind
Whole town whisper when the lights burn low
There goes trouble in a long black coat
Dead man walkin' but I ain't laid down
Still got fire when I hit that town
If you hear that laugh through the barroom smoke
That's the sound of a bad hand jokin' with hope
There was frost on the rail and a coyote hymn
And a cut-glass stare in the lamp-light dim
Every window had fear with the curtains cracked
Like the whole damn street wanted no part of that
I seen card sharks fold with a saint's blank face
Seen killers go pale when I named their place
Seen women with lightning behind their teeth
Look me dead on and still not leave
One said boy you look like the end rides slow
Like a brass-band funeral after fresh-cut snow
I said maybe, darling, maybe true
But the end looks better when it's dressed like you
Then the room got strange in that old saloon
Like the air went tight with a coming wound
Bottle broke sharp and a chair leg flew
And the devil himself would've ducked that room
I don't throw first, but I finish mean
Like thunder taught manners to a guillotine
By last call there was blood on wood
And a silence so deep it tasted good
No law gonna hold me
No grave gonna claim me
I got too much dusk in the blood that made me
If the bell toll once, let it toll for them
I been walkin' back out of the dark again
Dead man walkin' with a live wire grin
Black dust boots and a wicked wind
Whole town whisper when the lights burn low
There goes trouble in a long black coat
Dead man walkin' but I ain't laid down
Still got fire when I hit that town
If you hear that laugh through the barroom smoke
That's the sound of a bad hand jokin' with hope
Maybe I was born where the fence-lines rot
Where the moon stay mean and the prayers stay caught
Maybe I got stitched from the cold and spite
With a little more nerve than a man should write
Maybe every road that I took stayed cursed
Maybe every love only made me worse
But I still came back with a heart that beat
Like a gallows drum under outlaw feet
Let the hinges shake
Let the lanterns swing
Let the scared ones hide when the bad dogs sing
I don't need a crowd
I don't need a throne
Just a dark-ass sky and a road back home
Dead man walkin' with a live wire grin
Black dust boots and a wicked wind
Whole town whisper when the lights burn low
There goes trouble in a long black coat
Dead man walkin' but I ain't laid down
Still got fire when I hit that town
If you hear that laugh through the barroom smoke
That's the sound of a bad hand jokin' with hope
Dead man walkin' with a hard moon stare
Graveyard lungs and a rope-burn prayer
Still too wild for a nailed-shut box
Still puttin' sparks in a dead town clock
By sunrise there was dust and glass
And one long track where the black horse passed
No note
No cross
Just bootprints sayin'
I was here, now count your loss
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