The listener is given no context regarding the prisoner’s crime (could he be the narrator from several of the tracks on Killers?), but is instead treated to an introspective look at the meaning of life. This song is the somber reflections of a prisoner on the day his death sentence is to be carried out.
Life down here is just a strange illusion
When you know that your time is close at hand Somebody cries from a cell "God be with you" Somebody please tell me that I'm dreamingĭon't I believe that there never is an end?Īs the guards march me out to the courtyard Is it really the end, not some crazy dream? Of a world that has gone very wrong for meĬan it be that there's some sort of error? I take a look through the bars at the last sights When the priest comes to read me the last rites Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much timeĬause at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole I'm waiting in my cold cell, when the bell begins to chime
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