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
Cos at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole

The sands of time for me are running low

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 there's some sort of error
Hard to stop the surmounting terror
Is it really the end not some crazy dream


Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming
It's not so easy to stop from screaming

But words escape me when I try to speak
Tears they flow but why am I crying
After all I am not afraid of dying

Don't believe that there is never an end

As the guards march me out to the courtyard

Someone calls from a cell "God be with you"
If there's a God then why has he let me die?
As I walk all my life drifts before me

And though the end is near I'm not sorry
Catch my soul cos it's willing to fly away


Mark my words please believe my soul lives on
Please don't worry now that I have gone
I've gone beyond to see the truth


When you know that your time is close at hand
maybe then you'll begin to understand

Life down there is just a strange illusion