The Big Sleep - Murder By Death

At the end of the road he calls everyone home

and the fire will consume us striking through to the bone

at the end of the road you will soon hear him call

as the congregations crumble and the chapels will fall

and the taste on your tongue well it comes yeah it comes

with the bittersweet pang of remorse and pain

till the judgement is made the prosecutions won

The gavel has fall and justice is done

the courtroom clears, I’m left alone on the bench

my wife and children gone, along with the defense

the bailiff leads me back to my cell

like the riverman ferrying my to hell

I can’t blame them, no, to hate me for what I’ve done

I hear them whisperin' in the hall

you’ll live and die by the gun

all I can do is sit here and pray

I’ll be forgiven on judgement day

tell my wife in our yard burried underneath the pine

there’s a shoebox full of money

of which I’ve never earned a dime

use it to start over the way things should have been

live honest and love again

tell my wife tell my kids I never meant for this to happen

when they flip the switch please do not stay

I couldn’t bear for you to remember me this way