Bayou ’96 (Hunt Showdown)

Lantern swingin’ by a busted dock

Mud up to our knees in the cypress rot

Got a poster in my pocket

Ink still wet

High price on a name I ain’t learned yet

Rust on the gate

Dogs won’t bark

Just that slow drip heartbeat in the dark

Two more shadows on the levee line

If I don’t move first

I won’t make it out alive

This is Hunt Showdown

1896

Blood on the bounty

Hands on the fix

Every footstep loud

Every breath a risk

If the monsters don’t get me

The hunters will

Yeah

The hunters will (oh)

Broken chapel where the crows all sit

Glass in the aisle

Pews half-split

Something crawling in the rafters

Chewing lead

Smells like sulfur

Iron

And regret

Hear ‘em whisper through the sawgrass cold

Trading rumors for a share of my soul

Torn badge

Flask

And a shaking aim

You win by leaving

Not by fame

This is Hunt Showdown

1896

Blood on the bounty

Hands on the fix

Every footstep loud

Every breath a risk

If the monsters don’t get me

The hunters will

Yeah

The hunters will (hey!)

Body on the floor

But the match’s still live

You don’t stop fighting just ‘cause you died

I’m the echo in the reeds

I’m the mark you missed

I’m the lantern on your back when the gunsmoke lifts

This is Hunt Showdown

1896

Blood on the bounty

Hands on the fix

Every footstep loud

Every breath a risk

If the monsters don’t get me

The hunters will

If the monsters don’t get me

The hunters will

Yeah

The hunters will