Between life and death there is something more
That each of us will view
And when the moment is right for your death to arrive
Then it will come looking for you

And as in this tale to follow
Now it's never too late to die
For the story of what did happen to one
May truly twist your mind

Your mind, your mind
Your mind, your mind

Clutched within the hangman's noose
A man swings in the air
For in the grip of total war
Death is quick and most unfair

For on the grounds of northern state
Sat the southern man to die
With a choking rope placed 'round his neck
He enters into his mind

Run, run, runaway
You want innocence and life
Far, far faraway
You must leave this place or die

He prayed for all his loved ones
And that God would bring him home
As the hangman sneered and watched him suffer
He knew his time and come

But he found himself now falling down
To the water that sat below
For the rope had snapped and cheated death
Giving him a chance to run

So run, run! Runaway
Back to innocence and life
Far, far faraway
From this place you were to die

You are the hanging soldier
The one who cheated death
By name the hanging soldier
Alive, but will it last?

You are the hanging soldier
Answered prayers have set you free
By name the hanging soldier
But a false world's what you see

Eyes seeing sights of peace not war
Dying processed mind, it slowly fails you
Sights seeing lies of peace not war
Dying processed sights, hallucinations

Eyes seeing sights of peace not war
Dying processed mind, it slowly fails you
Sights seeing lies of peace not war
Dying processed sights

The man has died

Yes, it is sad how the story does end
As we return once again to the noose
For from a dangling rope with a neck that is broke
Was the soldier who died all too soon