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, running low yeah

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 dreamin'
It's not so easy to stop from screamin'
But words escape me when I try to speak
Tears they flow but why am I cryin'
After all I am not afraid of dyin'
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 willin' 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

Hey hallowed be Thy name
Hey hallowed be Thy name, yeah