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I'm waiting in my cold cell, when the bell begins to chime 
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Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time
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'Cause at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows pole, 
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The sands of time for me are running low 
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Running lo...ow,   yeah!

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  When the priest comes to read me the last rites,   
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  I take a look through the bars at the last sights, 
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  Of a world that has gone very wrong for me 
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  Can it be that there's some sort of error 
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  Hard to stop the surmounting terror 
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  Is it really the end, not some crazy dream? 
 
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  Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming, 
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  It's not so easy to stop from screaming, 
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  But words escape me when i try to speak. 
Em
  Tears flow but why am I crying, 
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  After all I'm not afraid of dying 
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  Don't I believe that there never is an en____d 
 
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  As the guards march me out to the courtyard, 
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  Somebody cries from a cell "God be with you" 
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  If there's a God then why has he let me down? 
Em
  As I walk all my life drifts before me,
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And Though the end is near I'm still not sorry 
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Catch my soul, it's willing to fly away 
Em
  Mark my words believe my soul lives on 
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 Please Don't worry now that I have gone 
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I've gone beyond to see the truth 
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  When you know that your time is close at hand
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Maybe then you'll begin to understand, 
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Life down here is just a strange illusion  
 

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Yeah, yeah, yeah  Hallowed be thy name
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Yeah, yeah, yeah  Hallowed be thy name
 
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