Four Shadows In The Sun

Four shadows in the sun, dust behind their run

Same jail, same keys, same jokes when it's done

They laugh like the rope never kissed their throats

Like time's just a door they keep kicking open

The town still got scars from the last time they came

Windows boarded up, every prayer got a name

They don't fear the law, they don't learn from the fall

They treat every ending like a break in the wall

I've seen this movie, I know every line

Same road, same blood, same mess every time

They trip on their luck, I trip on my role

Chasing the joke that keeps getting old

Four shadows in the sun, running from their sins

I put irons on their hands, they turn keys into friends

They fall, they rise, it's a joke with no end

I lock 'em in tonight, I'll see 'em again

Four shadows in the sun, laughing at the gun

They don't fear the cage, they just wait for it to run

I clean up the scene, but the scene won't end

Feels like I'm paid to press reset on men

The jail smells like echoes of yesterday's screams

Names carved in the walls, all the same damn theme

One's dumb with a grin, one's sharp with a lie

One's tall full of rage, one just scared to die

They talk 'bout the road like it owes them a life

Like the world is a pocket they're born to knife

I see me in the cycle, the joke in my hands

I catch 'em for the town, I release 'em for the land

If justice was water, this well's running dry

Every time that I pull them out, they jump back inside

The town calls me order, they call me a curse

I'm the man with the badge and the clock in reverse

Four shadows in the sun, dust behind their run

Same cage, same song, same laugh when it's done

I can tie every knot, I can close every gate

But the road keeps teaching 'em how to escape

Four shadows in the sun, I'm tired of the game

I bring 'em back to silence, they bring me back the same

If this is what justice looks like in the end

Then I'm just the hand that keeps winding the pen