[Intro: Echoing slide guitar over distant thunder]
[Verse 1: Smoke's Lament]
I walked through fire with b***d on my name,
Crosses burnin’ but I feel no flame.
Buried my sins down in that clay,
But devils rise where I used to pray.
[Chorus: Gospel Haunt]
Ohhh—Sinner man, where you gonna run?
The river’s dry and the moon blocks the sun.
Judgement's knockin' with a loaded g*n,
Ain’t no mercy when the curse has begun.
[Verse 2: Stack's Resolve]
Smoke in my lungs, blues in my vein,
Built that juke joint from rust and pain.
But ghosts don’t sleep in a godless town,
And the past don’t die—it just hangs around.
[Bridge: Choir + Whispered Voice]
(Choir: “Down to the river, wash me clean”)
(Whisper: “He was marked from the cradle, cursed unseen…”)
(Choir: “Forgive our b***d, forgive our screams”)
(Whisper: “But angels don’t visit Clarksdale dreams…”)
[Final Chorus: Full Choir + Lead Vocal]
Ohhh—Sinner man, you can’t outrun,
The sins you carved in the Delta sun.
B***d in the soil, chains in the drum,
Hell ain’t a place—it’s what you become.
[Outro: Distant church bell, slide guitar fades into silence]