[Intro]

I'm waiting in my cold cell

When the bell begins to chime

Reflecting on my past life

And it doesn't have much time

Cause at 5 o'clock

They take me to the Gallows Pole

The sands of time

For me are running low

Running low, yeah!

[Verse 1]

When the priest comes to read me the last rites

I take a look through the bars at the last sights

Of a world that has gone very wrong for me

Can it be that there's some sort of error?

Hard to stop the surmounting terror

Is it really the end, not some crazy dream?

[Verse 2]

Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming

It's not easy to stop from screaming

But words escape me when I try to speak

Tears fall but why am I crying?

After all I'm not afraid of dying

Don't I believe that there never is an end?

[Verse 3]

As the guards march me out to the courtyard

Somebody cries from a cell "God be with you"

If there's a God why has He let me go?

As I walk my life drifts before me

And though the end is near I'm not sorry

Catch my soul, it's willing to fly away

[Verse 4]

Mark my words believe my soul lives on

Don't worry now that I have gone

I've gone beyond to seek the truth

When you know that your time is close at hand

Maybe then you'll begin to understand

Life down here is just a strange illusion

[Lead - Flynn]

[Lead - Demmel]

[Outro]

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Hallowed be thy name

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Hallowed be thy name

Yeah!