REVENGE HAS A FACE (Alt 1)

Intro You kept looking over your shoulder. Wrong direction.

Verse 1 You left me bleeding in the dust Called it done and rode away Told the whole damn county I was buried where I lay You drank to my disappearance Wore my silence like a crown But some men don’t stay forgotten Some graves don’t hold them down I learned patience from the buzzards Learned forgiveness from the flame Spent a long year losing mercy And remembering your name

Pre-Chorus You thought revenge was just a shadow Something faceless in the black But shadows grow a pair of boots And sometimes they come back

Chorus Revenge has a face And you’re looking at it now It’s got dust across its knuckles And your promise in its mouth Revenge has a face No mask, no shame, no saving grace You can run like hell tonight But revenge has a face And it remembers yours Remembers yours Remembers yours

Verse 2 You bought yourself a new name Built a house beyond the tracks Put a Bible by the bedside Like the Lord could watch your back You told your woman you were honest Told your children you were clean Funny what a man calls innocent When no one knows what he has seen I ain’t here to take your money I ain’t here to burn your land I came to put one simple truth Back where you can understand Every debt collects eventually Every coward gets his day You can’t outrun what you created When it knows the goddamn way

Pre-Chorus You thought time would make me softer Thought the whiskey made me weak But time just taught me how to wait And silence taught me when to speak

Chorus Revenge has a face And you’re staring in its eyes It survived your cheap betrayal It outlived every damn lie Revenge has a face Cut from hunger, smoke and rage You can pray like hell tonight But revenge has a face And it’s standing at your gate Relax. If I came here to kill you… You wouldn’t be hearing this part.

Bridge I want you waking at the floorboards Every time the old house groans I want every darkened window Looking like these hollow bones I want every road behind you Feeling shorter than before Every knock to stop your breathing Every shadow near the door No, death would be too easy And mercy ain’t my trade I want you living long enough To meet the monster that you made

Breakdown So keep your gun Keep your prayer Keep pretending I ain’t there But when the moon turns blood-red And the coyotes leave no trace You’ll know the truth: Revenge ain’t coming Revenge is in your face Revenge has a face And it wears what you put me through Every scar became a reason Every reason led to you Revenge has a face No halo and no hiding place You can beg your God tonight But revenge has a face Revenge has a name You carved it in me long ago Now I’m standing close enough To make damn sure you know Revenge has a face And you’re looking at it now You thought you buried me alive— Look who’s above the ground Revenge has a— Revenge knows your— You made the man You fear today

Outro Keep looking over your shoulder. That’s where I want you.

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