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