The Desert Merc

(hiss) Sun baked scales, a venom barb primed behind my spine

Leave your gold upon the stone,

I'll draw the lethal line

Don't shake my hand,

don't ask my name,

don't look behind my hood

I take the coin to do the work you never thought you

could (yeah)

I keep the oasis clean,

I keep the vermin down

Nobody touches a single stone inside my desert town

Outsiders pay the price

in blood

Call me Cactus, count the gold,

I strike and then you're dead

Tail curled high with venom dripping hot and venom red

I don't trust a living soul,

I don't need a friend

Cross the border to my village and you meet your end

Guarding a convoy or putting a monarch in the dirt

I don't care who loses blood or whose feelings hurt

My kin sleep safe beneath the dunes while I do all the

sin

I lock my armored chest up tight and never let you in (never)

I sharpen every barb,

I count out every fee

The only creature in this waste who survives is me

Put the bounty down

Call me Cactus, count the gold,

I strike and then you're dead

Tail curled high with venom dripping hot and venom red

I don't trust a living soul,

I don't need a friend

Cross the border to my village and you meet your end

(straight to the end) No mercy for strangers.

No pity for buyers.

I burn the world to ashes

just to feed our fires.

I strike alone.

I stand alone. Cactus takes the bounty.

Leave the coins in the sand. (hiss)