The Tin Saint (Killeen3000)

[A low wind hums through hollow canyons.

Slide guitar fades in, slow and mournful.

Soft drums beat like a weary heart.

A lone whistle echoes once — then the music swells beneath the rising sun.]

I walk these plains where angels hide

Hands still stained from what’s inside

I don’t ask much, I just survive

Too far gone, but still alive

Smoke drifts thin from a chapel door

Ashes fall like they’ve been here before

The sky’s so wide it feels untrue

Every mile just leads to you

The river dried, the prayer went cold

The nights get long when you’re getting old

I hear my name in the desert rain

It’s mercy soft, but it sounds like pain

I walk these plains where angels hide

Hands still stained from what’s inside

I don’t ask much, I just survive

Too far gone, but still alive

And the wind keeps calling low

Through the bones of what I know

Every scar begins to glow

Like stars that never show

[Slide guitar bends against distant thunder.

Echoed drums mimic a heartbeat under the sound of wind.

A faint hum of voices rises, wordless, like ghosts in prayer.]

I lay my sins in the dirt tonight

They shine like glass in the fading light

No church can hold what I’ve become

A hymn of steel, a heart gone numb

And if the dawn still has its way

I’ll face it raw — come what may

I walk these plains where angels hide

Hands still stained from what’s inside

I don’t ask much, I just survive

Too far gone, but still alive

The sky breaks slow in gold and red

I count the ghosts inside my head

The silence hums, the tears are fed

By all the words I left unsaid

If faith still burns, it burns in sand

A spark that slips through trembling hands

And every breath I take feels earned

From every cross I never learned

I walk these plains where angels hide

Hands still stained from what’s inside

I don’t ask much, I just survive

Too far gone, but still alive

[Soft strings rise under fading slide guitar.

Wind returns like breath through open stone.

A single low chord rings, then vanishes into silence.]