Dead Men Don't Win Lyrics — R.J. Sloane

Dead Men Don't Win is an outlaw country song by R.J. Sloane about a man facing down a brother turned traitor in a gunfight neither of them can walk away from.

He trusted this man with his life. Rode into fire together. Called him brother. Now the badge is tarnished, the bodies are in the ground, and there's only one road left. Not rage — something colder. The grief of a man who already knows how this ends and has to be the one to end it.

Inspired by Shane Harper and Kendall Bowden in The Traitor's Badge.

VERSE 1
Used to be brothers
Before the darkness
Lassoed you back
Liar
Traitor
Killer
This ends here
Sun blazing overhead
High noon calling
One of us to the grave

CHORUS
Tarnished badge
Corrupt and unjust
Death toll reckoning
Long overdue
Justice through bullets
Piercing through
It's me
Or it's him
Crack splits the air
Dead men
Don't win

VERSE 2
Code in the badge
Honor and protect
You swore the same oath
Abandoned for silver
And Judas' evil kiss
Blood soaks the ground
Innocent lives destroyed
Turned your back
On the oath you swore
Thirty pieces of silver
Tied around your neck
Justice come calling
Pay up the debt

CHORUS
Tarnished badge
Corrupt and unjust
Death toll reckoning
Long overdue
Justice through bullets
Piercing through
It's me
Or it's him
Crack splits the air
Dead men
Don't win

VERSE 3
Called you brother
Rode into Diablo
And back again
Bell tolls noon
Heart pounding
Hand steady
[Bang]
[Bang]
[Bang]
Three rounds of justice
Sayonara dark soul

CHORUS
Tarnished badge
Corrupt and unjust
Death toll reckoning
Long overdue
Justice through bullets
Piercing through
It's me
Or it's him
Crack splits the air
Dead men
Don't win

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