Outlaw's Shadow Lyrics — R.J. Sloane

Outlaw's Shadow is an outlaw country song by R.J. Sloane about four siblings who grew up in the shadow of an outlaw father and chose to aim that anger at evil instead of carrying it as poison.

True justice isn't vengeance. It's taking everything that broke you and honing it into something that protects the people who can't protect themselves. These four knew what evil costs before they knew anything else. That's what made them dangerous — and that's what made them righteous.

Series theme song — Harper's Justice by R.J. Sloane.

VERSE 1
Outlaw by night
Protector at dawn
Fractured my soul
Shield them from evil's iron grip
Taught them to fight
Each strike lethal
Honed them into weapons
Filled with righteous rage

CHORUS
Vengeance tucked away
Simmering below the skin
Lethal smart, deadly aim
Fuse lit in darkness
Cleansed by holy fire
Reaper wrapped in light
Outlaws run in fear
Crack echoes
Smoke curls
Debt paid

VERSE 2
Could have taught them
Survival alone
Hollowed them out
Killed my soul
Taught them right
No matter my cost
Better than the slow death
Of the outlaw's shadow

CHORUS
Vengeance tucked away
Simmering below the skin
Lethal smart, deadly aim
Fuse lit in darkness
Cleansed by holy fire
Reaper wrapped in light
Outlaws run in fear
Crack echoes
Smoke curls
Debt paid

BRIDGE
Stepped into the darkness
No room left for mercy
Just a shadow of a man
Until they turned back
Saddled horse, clean brand
Riding with the light
Outlaw's shadow dead
Outlaw's shadow dead

CHORUS
Vengeance tucked away
Simmering below the skin
Lethal smart, deadly aim
Fuse lit in darkness
Cleansed by holy fire
Reaper wrapped in light
Outlaws run in fear
Crack echoes
Smoke curls
Debt paid

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