The story
In God We Trust stays inside the Alamo, not in the legend that came after. Travis puts his name to paper under a last candle. A thousand federales are outside the walls. A rider comes in under a white flag and tells them to lay their weapons down. The men beside him strike flint on steel and answer with cannons over the church bells.
The song then takes the hours Travis already knew were coming. Thirty-two men ride through the lines to stand with him. Santa Anna’s Deguello is the notice that no quarter will be given. They answer with rifle fire and the flags still up. The chorus is the bargain: “Bury me where the cannons roar.” Not the gentle ground. Rebel hands. A kneel for no man alive, only for the Lord.
The bridge is the letter he did not write. He has a daughter who turns five that year. He wrote the whole world, and he should have written Susan. Six weeks on, the lyric picks up Sam Houston at San Jacinto, and the men who charged screaming his name. The outro is the cry that outlived the walls: remember the Alamo, remember what it cost, remember every man who held the line.
Lyrics
Verse 1
I put my name to paper Under a final candle burning low A thousand federales outside these walls Now here to fight, no man chooses to go They sent their rider under a white flag Said lay your weapons down and kneel Every man beside me struck flint on steel And answered with cannons roaring above the church bell peals
Pre-chorus
Thru the smoke I see the sand running out But I’ll sign my name where I stand for the world to understand No surrender, no fear, no doubt I wrote to the whole world Every soul I’d never meet—
Chorus
Bury me where the cannons roar For my country, I settled this score Don’t lay me in the gentle ground Bury me where the cannons roar These are rebel hands never to be bound I’ll be standing when they tear these walls down I kneel for nothing but the Lord above Proudly, I give my life under the bullets flood Bury me where the cannons roar For my country, I settled this score
Verse 2
Thirty-two men rode through enemy lines Came as a final stand in the dark times I never asked a man to follow But God — every soul stood for open plain or gallows They played a song called “Deguello” Santa Anna’s way of saying no quarter given We answered back with rifle fire And every flag we had still risen
Pre-chorus 2
I know what’s coming with the dawn I’ve made my peace with what it costs But I’ll hold this line till the last man standing And I’ll hold it even after I am lost I wrote to the whole world Every soul who carries on—
Chorus 2
Bury me where the cannons roar Militia men and rebel will settle the score Don’t lay me in the gentle ground Bury me where the cannons roar I’ll be standing when they tear these walls down I won’t kneel for any man alive I’ll kneel for nothing but the Lord above Bury me where the cannons roar That’s enough — that’s enough The rest in God I trust
Bridge
I got a daughter She turns five this year I won’t be there to see it That much is clear I wrote my letter To the whole damn world But Susan — girl — I should’ve written you You’ll grow up holding These old words of mine Words I wrote for strangers When I should’ve written you Forgive your father For the choice he made I was born red white and blue renegade I pray you’d understand someday Six weeks on from here Sam Houston raised the cry The men who charged at San Jacinto Screamed my name into the sky
Final chorus
Bury me where the cannons roar Don’t lay me in the gentle ground Bury me where the cannons roar These are rebel hands never to be bound I’ll be standing when they tear these walls down I won’t kneel for any man alive I’ll kneel for nothing but the Lord above Bury me where the cannons roar
Outro
Remember the Alamo Remember what it cost Remember every man who held the line
Credits
- Artist
- Rico Sharma
- Written by
- Denau and Rico Sharma
- Produced by
- Rico Studios
- Project
- 21st Century Rock
- Release date
- 11 July 2026
- Genre
- Outlaw country metal
- Subject
- The last stand at the Alamo, through William B. Travis