Dead Men’s Watch

Blood on the barbed wire

Ash in the southern sky

Boot prints in cracked asphalt

We live

But we don’t know why

Broken town

Burned-out store

Names scratched into the door

Every gun’s got a story

Every grave wants more

We are the dead men’s watch

Eyes wide

Hearts still rotting

Keep the night

Keep the line

While the whole world’s plotting

We are the dead men’s watch

Still breathing

Barely sane

If monsters come for us tonight

We send them back again

Chains on the prison gate

Maps spread on hood of a car

Argue ‘bout right and wrong

While we sharpen up every scar

Crossbow on tired shoulders

Katana catching the dawn

Halo of flies above us

But somehow we walk on

How many lines can we cross

Till we’re just like them inside

Rotting slow behind our eyes

But we still refuse to die

[low vocal register] Say your prayers in gasoline

Light the match

Let it redeem

Every sin we can’t forget

Every name we won’t regret