HANGED

 

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By morning light they came to take me away

Their banners swaying in the wind

Out in the rain they dragged me onto the castle yard

I could hear the mocking of the crowd

If only I could I would go back in time

Then I would undo what I've done

The priest gave me my last rites my final sip of wine

Right before my pending end

A growing fear of dying spreading in my soul

Hell or heaven be my guide

With a noose around my neck and with tears in my eyes

I repented the sins of my past

[Chorus:]

Down to the gallows at the end of a rope

I will die as a sinner I'm going

Down to the gallows where so many have died

By the hands of the hangman

They came down the mountains they came down the hills

To see me draw my final breath

Over the rivers over the moors

To see the madman laid to rest

If only I could I would go back in time

Then I would undo what I've done

[Repeat chorus]

The pilgrims riddle is so hard to solve

The answer determines your rise or your fall

Heaven or hell the riddle is for all

The devils dance in brimstone and fire

The angels sing a beckoning call

Heaven or hell the riddle is for all

With a noose around my neck and with tears in my eyes

I repented the sins of my past

[Repeat chorus]

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Put your arms around my neck

just like a pathetic lace of death

displays like a tarot deck

I am the card of the hanged man

and here I stand

with a flame on my hand

do you understand?

If there is hope for me

she is flirting with the breeze

on a peculiar choreography

with the dead arms of some old southern tree

silently, lips sealed against me

silently, wanna walk with me?

And it makes you wanna know

if in all the stories the

truth is really told

And it makes you wanna reborn

and like a snake crawl every warm season

Into a different form

When you can still kill me,

when you can still cure me. Cure me.

Put your lace around my face

just like a fairytale

through the blank of my closed eyes

you can foresee the rope within

And it makes you wanna know

how deep have you truly flown

And it makes you wanna ride

through the fake suicide of someone

already dead inside

Still you walk with me, silently

and it makes you wanna disclaim

something you had really never learnt

and it makes you wanna stay

forever tangled in the pale

arms of some hanged man

Here I stand. To understand.

Violently. I have you with me.

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stopped in the crossroads of my life 

wrapped in the world of eternal strife 

I’m looking for the meaning of the universe 

searching in myself melody 

to drive me to the harmony 

I’m hung from my right ankle 

but I can see the truth 

bridge 

the secret of the alchemy 

rests in my crossed leg dark mystery 

what is the price of my soul’s crack? 

that one which ties my hands in my back 

chorus 

in my way to the knowledge 

I chose the road of sacrifice 

I will be fey of secret things 

I’ll see the other paradise 

I’m head-down 

since life began 

the hanged man 

the time drowns 

smiles Satan 

the hanged man 

it’s the time to understand 

why my clock stop the sand? 

my will is the only force 

that governs my fate 

no religions, no beliefs 

if I read the overleaf 

of the life book just than 

I will see the god’s face 

bridge 

chorus 

choir 

since life began 

the hanged man 

is seeing head-down 

how the time drowns 

what is the price of my soul’s crack? 

that one which ties my hands 

in my back 

chorus

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Sister, do not pray for me

There is no forgivneess here

Just the longest, darkest night

And my peoples end

Brother, many a crooked day we spent

Telling tales and making myths

Sharpening our tongues for the final fight

Yet doing little but growing old

I was never a religious man

So why should I put my faith in you?

You burned your bridges a long time ago

I'm a heathen, searching for his soul