Hallowed Be Thy Name - Live at Birmingham NEC, 1988; 2013 Remaster

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

'Cause at 5 o'clock

They take me

To the Gallows pole

The sands of time

For me

Are running low

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 that 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 easy to stop from screaming

But words escape me when I try to speak

Tears flow but why am I crying?

After all I'm not afraid of dying

Don't I believe that there never is an end?

As the guards march me out to the courtyard

Somebody cries from a cell: God be with you

If there's a God, why has He let me go?

As I walk, my life drifts before me

Though the end is near I'm not sorry

Catch my soul, it's willing to fly away

Mark my words believe my soul lives on

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 here is just a... just a strange illusion

Scream for me Birminghan

Scream for me Birminghan

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Hallowed be thy name

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Hallowed be thy name