The Crimson Rider (Gallows Frontier, Act I)

Death! And no escape
See, the Crimson Rider alone in the silver screen expanse
A teeming bedlam of dust and thunder follows in his wake
With all the resolve of hell burning in his eyes, the bastard hero traverses the plains
Saddled with avarice and cruelty he rides the key to a nation fixed to his belt.

A hero? A man. A mouthful of blood
Perennial, a loaded gun.

A law of the land cares not for lawless men
A skyline of gravestones stands tall come the dawn.

The frontier eternal, beholden to none
The rider who would deal death, has drafted his own.

The sun drawing nearer, The rider pushed on
In a fervor of gold, the outlaw becomes a God.

See our hero, realize too late
He was blind to the gallows, yet tied his own rope
As the platform falls from his feet, His last breath proclaims
I am iron, I am death. I am the setting sun. I am the West.

They’ll sing his song of an era gone.

Hero hero, to which sunset will you ride?
When the bleeding clouds leave no horizon?
The gallows, no road back?