Songs for Men Who Walk Through Smoke and Fire | Dark Gentlemen Blues

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:17]war for five years, but the war ain't over.

[00:00:29]BROTHERS AND MY shoulders sent home like soldiers.

[00:00:40]I ain't afraid of blood. No, I've been bloody.

[00:00:48]They cut me open and they left me with nothing.

[00:00:52]Out of the gutter.

[00:00:56]Took a gun to a knife fight. I'm from a place where the blood runs. Red lights don't break promises to me. Family comes before God. Can't you see?

[00:01:10]SO TELL ME, WHERE'S MY MAN? My blood is burning for the blood that's been spilled.

[00:01:22]I'm coming for him before the sun rises over these smoke stacks. His blood will be spilled before the dawn.

[00:01:43]Look at what you done. You awaken the monster. A bullet in your back. And I did it for Arthur. I can hear him calling from the streets of Birmingham.

[00:01:52]Want to talk betrayal? I don't think you understand. The wicked man will reap what he s you can try to hide, but the garrison knows.

[00:02:06]So tell me, WHERE'S MY MAN? MY BLOOD is burning for the blood that's been spilled.

[00:02:21]I'm coming for him before the SUN RISES OVER THESE smoke stacks. His blood will be spilled.

[00:02:37]Before the dawn.

[00:02:43]For the dawn.

[00:02:46]For the dawn.

[00:02:49]For the dawn.

[00:02:52]For the dawn.

[00:02:55]For the dawn.

[00:02:58]For the dawn.

[00:03:01]For the dawn.

[00:03:04]For the dawn.

[00:03:06]For the dawn.

[00:03:12]For the dawn.

[00:03:19]There are three points on a triangle.

[00:03:23]Each point representing one of the three sides.

[00:03:28]One point of the triangle represents you.

[00:03:32]The other point of the triangle represents the third point and the other point represents the third point of the triangle.

[00:03:42]We have come here not to lay flowers but to carry guns. And the truth is there's some men who cannot be scared.

[00:03:55]Some men will not be paid off.

[00:04:00]And for those men, there's only one choice.

[00:04:17]Back in 18, I got blood on my mind.

[00:04:23]Under smoke fil skies and the bullet holes in my hat. The old red hands holding us back. Can't tell you the things that I've seen.

[00:04:41]Me and my brothers fighting for our lives.

[00:04:45]I saw him coming for miles and I looked that horseman right in the eyes and I asked if he had any wine. Can't tell you the things that I've done.

[00:05:06]Cuz I made a deal with the devil and now he wants more.

[00:05:12]I made a deal with the devil and now he wants more.

[00:05:18]He says there's a debt that needs paying before dawn.

[00:05:27]before dawn.

[00:05:34]I'm going where the brackens grow. I'm going where the water flows. I'm going where nobody knows. I carry you with me wherever I go.

[00:05:48]I carry you with me WHEREVER I GO.

[00:06:01]I made a deal with the devil and now he wants more.

[00:06:07]I made a deal with the devil and now he wants more.

[00:06:13]He says there's a debt that needs paying before dawn.

[00:06:22]before dawn.

[00:06:29]Power of the dark, my family's name. I swear to the end, to the end of the earth, on the ground, in the mud. It's the power of the dark in my family's name. I swear to the end to the end of the earth on the ground in the mud I carry it with me wherever I go.

[00:07:39]Dirty windows. In the night, cold smoke hanging in the sky.

[00:07:51]Another black dust factory town.

[00:07:57]The working men put their hammers down.

[00:08:04]WE'RE THE ONES YOU NEVER SEE.

[00:08:10]WE ARE THEIR FORGOTTEN DREAMS.

[00:08:16]On these streets of factory fire.

[00:08:22]On these streets where heroes die.

[00:08:30]We're paying the blood.

[00:08:36]Yeah. Pay the blood.

[00:08:43]Pay the blood before the morning light.

[00:08:56]I was a poor boy just like you. Went off to fight the Kaiser too. I don't need your help, son. Just your trust. We have to stop him now cuz he wants us. Look me in the eyes, son. It's time. We are men and we have to draw the line.

[00:09:21]If we don't stop him now, he'll do it again.

[00:09:28]If we don't stop him now, the devil wins.

[00:09:35]Paying the blood.

[00:09:40]Yeah, I'm paying the blood.

[00:09:47]Pay in the blood before the morning light.

[00:10:01]You call me brother, you call me friend, but I know you'd stab me in the back again. We're here tonight to finish this. When the sun rises, you will be missed. Don't you think of crossing me?

[00:10:16]Because I made it clear what the price will be for my family, for my name. I am paying my dead and blood tonight.

[00:10:29]I'm paying the blood. Yeah.

[00:10:34]Yeah. I'm paying the blood. Yeah.

[00:10:42]The blood before the morning light.

[00:10:54]We're paying the blood.

[00:11:00]Yeah. Paying the blood.

[00:11:07]Hurry in the blood before the morning light.

[00:11:46]Yeah.

[00:11:54]Oh.

[00:12:01]Smoke in my eyes and a storm on my mind.

[00:12:10]Got the cold still resting on my tongue.

[00:12:16]I don't need no help and I don't need no guide because I am the one read for the fight and forged in the flame. I was born on the other side.

[00:12:36]I was built to win and I was built for pain and I was BUILT TO SURVIVE. YEAH.

[00:12:45]I want the shel.

[00:12:52]I want the shel.

[00:13:12]I will tell this world aart with these hands.

[00:13:19]I will do what my brothers cannot.

[00:13:25]I don't fear the dark.

[00:13:28]I'VE SEEN WHAT I AM.

[00:13:32]the man that you forgot.

[00:13:38]I will meet my father at the pearly gates. For the blood that we spill, the damage is done. I can't let it wash away. You can run, but I never will.

[00:14:01]I want the Shelby line.

[00:14:07]I want the Shelby line.

[00:14:24]All my friends are out in France. IT'S A WAR. I CAN'T UNDERSTAND. I SEE IT NOW IN MY MIND. THE smoke in my eyes.

[00:14:52]And I can feel the betrayal on my tongue.

[00:14:59]the one that you forgot.

[00:15:04]Now I've got to go and spill his blood before the sun comes up.

[00:15:18]Before the sun comes up.

[00:15:47]Yeah.

[00:16:06]Through the smoke, through the smoke, through the smoke I appear. From the haze of war, I am reborn.

[00:16:22]Through the smoke, through the smoke, through the smoke, I appear from the haze of war.

[00:16:32]I am reborn.

[00:16:37]A little boy watches the fire.

[00:16:43]I USED TO KNOW HIM. PUT IN the book.

[00:16:48]Put it in the book. WRITE IT DOWN. PUT IT in the book.

[00:16:57]WRITE IT DOWN. I KNOW WHAT I'm These streets don't change. I always thought that they turn great.

[00:17:37]Like my dear old father's hair and like the wolves that hide inside the rain.

[00:17:47]Inside the rain.

[00:17:52]Through the smoke. Through the smoke.

[00:17:56]Through the smoke. I appear from the haze of war.

[00:18:02]I am reborn.

[00:18:08]A little boy watches the fire.

[00:18:13]I USED TO KNOW HIM. Put it in the book.

[00:18:19]Put it IN THE BOOK. WRITE IT DOWN. PUT IT IN THE BOOK.

[00:18:27]Write it down. I know what I'm owe.

[00:18:53]Heat. Heat.

[00:19:14]We came up on them hard city streets.

[00:19:22]Long black coats underneath.

[00:19:27]Dead broke.

[00:19:31]Looking for a little green to smoke.

[00:19:37]To smoke a man is his brothers. God save the mother of the chosen ones.

[00:19:50]War leaves a blood debt. War leaves a blood debt. AND WE MUST PAY IT BACK BY DAWN. OH, back by tried to hit me with a big idea.

[00:20:24]I told him, "Take it up with the boss.

[00:20:30]Boys, the smoke is going to kill us all.

[00:20:34]They never met a killer before.

[00:20:38]Boys, a man is his brothers. God save the mother of the chosen ones.

[00:20:53]War leaves a blood death. War leaves a blood debt and WE MUST PAY IT BACK BY DAWN.

[00:21:07]Back by dawn.

[00:21:46]Before the dawn.

[00:21:52]before the dawn.

[00:22:06]The city skyline black as li every time a hand in my neck.

[00:22:18]Smoke curls and tumbles to the cobble stones in the mirror. I hear the sound of thunder before the dawn.

[00:22:36]Hammer was clanging in my brain. Gun smoke seeping through my veins. The blue is blacker than the rain. The blood will never leave these streets. It is what it is, but it isn't what it seems. It was what it was, but it isn't what it means.

[00:23:00]It will be what it will, but it isn't what it seems.

[00:23:11]before the dawn.

[00:23:26]City skyline black as every word cut to the bone.

[00:23:37]No wonder why I never came home. I feel the hunger of the thunder before the dawn.

[00:23:55]The family secrets come to light. Your home was made by dynamite. I never knew that I'd be right.

[00:24:07]But if you say you're one of us, THEN TELL ME WHY YOU LEFT us to rust. If you're the son that you say you are, then why did you get in that car?

[00:24:21]I can't forgive the others, but you broke your mother's heart.

[00:24:33]Heat.

[00:24:51]Heat.

[00:25:13]M city of lost blood and dead roses. es smoke stacks with glass eyes and heavy noses.

[00:25:36]Dirty hand deals in the dark.

[00:25:40]Only when the skies filled with stars.

[00:25:48]I built this empire with my brothers.

[00:25:53]Only man in this world that I trust.

[00:25:59]But in the heat of the night, they met the angels in the earth.

[00:26:04]It took their dust.

[00:26:11]ALL THE BLOOD I LOST. BLOOD I lost.

[00:26:17]And the blood I gave. Blood I gave.

[00:26:23]THE WAR I FOUGHT.

[00:26:27]It all led to this day. Led to this day.

[00:26:35]And the earth must take.

[00:26:38]All the blood I owe. And all the blood I know.

[00:26:44]Before the sun rise, I must take our soul. But I lost. But I gave the war I fought led to this day.

[00:27:00]Earth must take the blood.

[00:27:08]Oh, before the sun rise, I must take a soul.

[00:27:26]I went to war, but I came back alone.

[00:27:30]You saw the best of me leave me. I fought to survive, but my brothers died.

[00:27:35]Now it's time to pay what you owe me.

[00:27:40]>> All the blood I lost.

[00:27:43]>> Blood I lost and the blood I gave. Blood I gave.

[00:27:52]The war I fought.

[00:27:56]It all led to this day. Led to this day.

[00:28:04]And the earth MUST TAKE all the blood I own and all the blood I know.

[00:28:14]Before the sun rise, I must take up soul. Blood I lost, blood I gave. The war I fall to this day.

[00:28:30]Earth must take the blood out before the sun rise.

[00:28:47]I must take a soul.

[00:29:00]And the earth must take all the blood I own and all the blood I know before the sun rise.

[00:29:14]I MUST TAKE A SOUL.

[00:29:41]HEAT.

[00:29:45]HEAT.

[00:29:56]They came in 21 and left me on the floor.

[00:30:04]They thought they d me in, but I'm back for more.

[00:30:12]In a paper crown, in a diamond ring, as a smile rolls in, I'm the king of Birmingham.

[00:30:28]I GOT BLOOD IN MY EYES.

[00:30:31]I GOT BLOOD IN MY hands and a blood debt to pay before the day breaks. And I'll do it again.

[00:30:42]for the king of Birmingham.

[00:30:59]I got blood in my eyes.

[00:31:03]I GOT BLOOD IN MY HANDS.

[00:31:07]and a blood debt to pay before the day breaks. And I do it again for the king of Birmingham.

[00:31:20]And I've been chasing rainbows since I came home from the war.

[00:31:28]And I've been kissing Judas and locking ALL THE DOORS.

[00:31:36]And I'll be loading barrels. So come on, you black and t by the horse you for. I'm the king of burning hand.

[00:31:50]I got blood in my eyes.

[00:31:54]I got blood in my hands and a blood debt to pay before the day breaks. And I'll do it again for the king of Birmingham.

[00:32:37]I got blood in my eyes.

[00:32:41]I got blood in my hands and I'm blooded to pay before the day breaks. And I'll do it again for the king of Birmingham.

[00:32:59]for the king of Birmingham.

[00:33:07]For the king of Birmingham.

[00:33:15]For the king of Birmingham.

[00:33:23]for the king of Birmingham.

[00:33:53]They march like soldiers.

[00:33:56]All the men in the family looking for orders from the man in the black hole.

[00:34:08]A different kind of pain. I think he likes it. He carries it like a gun.

[00:34:15]And I can't say I haven't tried it.

[00:34:23]I'm on my way to pay him a visit. He's at the pub drinking. Guinness. He's been IN THERE FOR a minute.

[00:34:34]I wonder if he knows I'm coming. He better hope I'm kidding.

[00:34:43]What do you say?

[00:34:46]If the only way to make a living is blood to pay, this city will remember your name. I will always be loyal to my brother from another mother.

[00:35:07]And if he calls me, I will answer.

[00:35:11]And the fire in his eyes will always burn.

[00:35:22]Now here we are on the streets where I grew up. Smoke in the air, lights on the buildings. But I won't say a word if you don't. But the ones we love will always hurt us. I can never LET IT GO. I COULD TELL you stories.

[00:35:46]I could write a NOVEL if you want me to. What do you say?

[00:35:55]If the only way to make a living is blood to pay this city will remember your name. I will always be loyal to my brother from another mother. And if he calls me, I will answer.

[00:36:20]And the fire in his eyes will always burn.

[00:36:29]Before the day begins, you got a debt to pay. When the sun rises, he's got to go.

[00:36:37]Before the day begins, he's got a debt to pay. When the sun rises, he's got to go. Before the day begins, he's got a debt to pay. When the sun rises, he's got to go. Before the day begins, he's got a debt to pay. When the sun rises, he's got to go.

[00:37:03]What do you say?

[00:37:05]If the only way to make a living is blood to pay, this city will remember your name. I will always be loyal to my brother from another mother. And if he calls me, I will answer.

[00:37:30]And the fire in his eyes will always burn.

[00:38:02]Smoke on the cobblestone.

[00:38:08]He rose from the wall in a new seal rope.

[00:38:14]Put on his hat and his coat.

[00:38:18]His family grows on cold British streets. You survive or you f they all want a cut of the pie that he owns.

[00:38:34]He moves with his crew when they die for their own.

[00:38:38]They die for their own.

[00:38:46]Blood on the carpet, money in the basement.

[00:38:52]You got to pay up.

[00:38:55]Before the day end, they used to laugh.

[00:39:02]Now they pay him a blood.

[00:39:24]Coons in a line, smoke in the air.

[00:39:30]All in good time, a chance to prepare.

[00:39:36]I made you an offer, an offer, an offer, but you had to dare.

[00:39:49]Now look what you made me do. You lost your whole family and now I lose you.

[00:39:59]Don't cry for them.

[00:40:02]That's not what a soldier would do.

[00:40:07]A soldier would do.

[00:40:13]Oh, blood on the carpet, money in the basement.

[00:40:21]You got to pay up.

[00:40:24]Before the day ends, they used to laugh.

[00:40:31]Now they pay him.

[00:40:34]A blood death.

[00:40:40]Blood on the carpet. on the carpet.

[00:40:44]Money in the basement. Money in the basement. Got to pay it. Before the day is for the day they used to last.

[00:40:56]Now they pay him a blood debt.

[00:41:03]Pay him.

[00:41:06]Pay him a blood day.

[00:41:24]Heat. Heat.

[00:41:45]I know there's no secret that I'm as hard as nails.

[00:41:53]The roads I know like the back of my hand.

[00:42:00]THE SKY IS BLACK AS COLD and the smoke that hits my lungs is not like my cigarette and my home is burning ham.

[00:42:15]But that's as much as I will say.

[00:42:21]But there are some things that you need to KNOW AS WE WALK DOWN THIS DARK ROAD.

[00:42:29]THAT I could have anyone I wanted.

[00:42:32]Anyone I wanted, but I chose you.

[00:42:38]I chose you.

[00:42:42]There's a blood debt to be paid by the morning.

[00:42:49]So if you could hold me one last time, there's a blood debt TO BE PAID BY THE MORNING.

[00:43:05]So if you could hold me one last time, see the war took everything from me.

[00:43:19]My brother and my friend.

[00:43:22]My brother came home in a coffin. So my brothers are all I have left.

[00:43:30]My sisters and their children. OUR FAMILIES WIVES AND DOGS.

[00:43:38]I work in men's businesses.

[00:43:41]It's a family of dogs.

[00:43:45]And now it's time for us TO BARK AS WE RIDE THROUGH THIS DARK PARK. BUT I COULD have anyone I wanted. Anyone I wanted, but I chose you.

[00:44:02]I chose you.

[00:44:06]There's a blood debt to be paid by the morning.

[00:44:13]So if you could hold me one last time, there's a blood debt to be paid by the morning.

[00:44:30]So if you could hold me one last time, there's a blood TO BE PAID BY the morning.

[00:44:45]So if you could hold me one last time, there's blood debt to be paid by the morning.

[00:45:01]So if you could hold me one last time.