A precipitant flight betwixt stifling trees A foolish Desperate craven Destined To Hang As in a nightmare, I stumbled through woods My cloth ripped by judgment sudoric flesh shorn The phantom of terror loomed, ever giving chase As a capricious spectre not bound to one face Still shaken by horror, fresh blood on my hands I'd awoken to the sound of her screams I'd sinned as I slept, surely even God wept As my mother was taken from me So I fled from total depravity Into the mercy and light of your love I can't forget what I've done So forgive me Father I'm coming Home With a rope 'round my neck The rivers and fields of gold lie Where tragedy dies and the sun never sets I'm Innocent Though I've thrice Christ denied Though I've revelled in sin Though I, like flowers defiled Clothed myself in beauty whilst rot lay within Twice before, mine own hand was stay'd The Lord as my shepherd, answered as I prayed But my fingers were crossed, I'm still clutching the blade Simply a justified sinner destined to hang So with one step towards heaven and a kick of my feet A noose woven from fate's thread tighten'd round me I finally wept as my grief became dreams of piquant ecstasy So farewell O' alluring obscenity Thus I reap from the wages of sin I'm dying to see what's to come So forgive me, Father I'm coming Home With a rope 'round my neck The rivers and fields of gold lie Where tragedy dies and the sun never sets Though I've thrice Christ denied Though I've revelled in sin Though I, like flowers defiled Clothed myself in beauty whilst rot lay within