Comet wildfire, burning through the black (Version 2)

Intro

Dust on the dashboard, ashes on the sill

Nine shadows riding down the wildfire hill

Verse

Born in the canyon where the brushfire sleeps

Six of us running while the county sheriff sleeps

Chrome on the fender catching moonlight thin

Every debt we carry, we split it razor-thin

My compa held the wheel when my hands went numb

Traded silver watches for a loaded drum

We don't sign no papers, we just seal with smoke

A promise burned in ember is a vow that never broke

Ranch road forty, gravel kicking dust

Engine coughing embers like it's breathing rust

If one of us falls, the rest of us catch fire

Loyalty's the only thing that climbs any higher

Grew up counting bullets like they're rosary beads

Learned that trust is currency nobody else believes

My brothers ain't blood but the blood says we are

Riding through the dark like a comet, like a scar

Chorus

Comet wildfire, burning through the black

Ride together, no man falling back

Comet wildfire, streak across the sky

Loyal till the ashes, that's the reason why

Verse

Two years later, the ranch turned to rubble

Cousin took the fall so we could dodge the trouble

Wrote his name in ash on the tailgate rust

Told the judge nothing, kept the silence like a trust

Every dollar split seven ways down the line

Even when the numbers don't divide just fine

Radio crackling static through the canyon pass

We count the miles left like sand through an hourglass

Mama's rosary swinging from the mirror chrome

Every road we ride on leads us back toward home

Bullet holes in metal telling stories