Parley at Sundown Lyrics—R.J. Sloane
Parley at Sundown is an outlaw country duet by R.J. Sloane about two strangers forging an alliance at the edge of a fight neither expects to survive.
Two voices. Two men who've done the math and know the odds. One makes the ask; the other answers—wary, clear-eyed, and done pretending the odds are good. This is the negotiation before the battle.
VERSE 1
Death is coming at dawn
You know it
I know it
Ain't gonna flinch
Gonna do the job
Protect the innocent
You got my back?
CHORUS
Hands dirty
Scarred and bloody
Evil cresting that hill
Time to decide
Darkness or light
Ride side by side
Put the devil's dogs down
VERSE 2
Know your reputation
Renegade
Not likely to follow
Hands dirty
Sometimes grit, true grit
Rides on a black horse
Won't aim at you
If you don't spin that chamber toward me
CHORUS
Hands dirty
Scarred and bloody
Evil cresting that hill
Time to decide
Darkness or light
Ride side by side
Put the devil's dogs down
BRIDGE
Silver bullets loaded
Time to mount up
Sun breaks the horizon
Reaper calling our bluff
Back to back it is
Even if we go down
Devil, time to put your dogs down
CHORUS
Hands dirty
Scarred and bloody
Evil cresting that hill
Time to decide
Darkness or light
Ride side by side
Put the devil's dogs down
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