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.