Standard (EADGBE)

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 sleep, 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 judgment is made

The prosecution’s won

The gavel has fallen

And justice is done

Interlude

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 me to Hell

I can’t blame ‘em, no

To hate me for what I’ve done

I hear them whispering 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 judgment day

Tell my wife in our yard

Buried underneath the pine

There's a shoebox full of money

of which I 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

Interlude

end on

When they flip the switch,

please do not stay

I couldn't bear for you

to remember me this way