Relient K<\/p>\n
(0:33) I can smell the death on the sheets
\nCovering me
\nI can’t believe this is the end<\/p>\n
(0:54)But this is my deathbed
\nI lie here alone
\nIf I close my eyes tonight
\nI know I’ll be home<\/p>\n
(1:18) The year was nineteen forty one
\nI was eight years old and
\nFar far too young
\nTo know that the stories
\nOf battles and glory
\nWas a tale a kind mother
\nMade up for her son
\nYou see
\nDad was a traveling preacher
\nTeaching the words of the Teacher
\nBut mother had sworn
\nWent off to the war
\nAnd died there with honor
\nSomewhere on a beach there
\nBut he left once to never return
\nWhich taught me that I should unlearn
\nWhatever I thought a father should be
\nI abandoned that thought
\nLike he abandoned me<\/p>\n
(2:08) By forty seven I was fourteen
\nI’d acquired a taste for liquor and nicotine
\nI smoked until I threw up
\nYet I still lit ’em up for thirty more years
\nLike a machine<\/p>\n
(2:26) So right there you have it
\nThat one filthy habit
\nIs what got me where I am today<\/p>\n
(2:39) I can smell the death on the sheets
\nCovering me
\nI can’t believe this is the end
\nI can hear those sad memories
\nStill haunting me
\nSo many things
\nI’d do again<\/p>\n
(3:13) But this is my deathbed
\nI lie here alone
\nIf I close my eyes tonight
\nI know I’ll be home<\/p>\n
(3:30) I got married on my twenty first
\nEight months before my wife would give birth
\nIt’s easier to be sure you love someone
\nWhen her father inquires with the barrel of a gun
\nThe union was far from harmonious
\nNo two people could have been more alone than us
\nThe years would go by and she’d love someone else
\nAnd I realized I hadn’t been loved yet myself<\/p>\n
(4:03) From there it’s your typical spiel
\nYeah if life was a highway
\nI was drunk at the wheel
\nI was helping the loose ends
\nAll fall apart
\nYeah I swear I was destined to fail
\nAnd fail from the start<\/p>\n
(4:22) I bowled about six times a week
\nThe bottle of Beam kept the memories from me
\nOur marriage had taken a seven-ten split
\nAlong with my pride the ex-wife took the kids<\/p>\n
(4:39) I can smell the death on the sheets
\nCovering me
\nI can’t believe this is the end
\nI can hear those sad memories
\nStill haunting me
\nSo many things
\nI’d do again<\/p>\n
(5:13) But this is my deathbed
\nI lie here alone
\nIf I close my eyes tonight
\nI know I’ll be home<\/p>\n
(5:30) I was so scared of Jesus
\nBut He sought me out
\nLike the cancer in my lungs
\nIt’s killing me now
\nAnd I’ve given up hope
\nOn the days I have left
\nBut I cling to the hope
\nOf my life in the next
\nThen Jesus showed up
\nSaid “Before we go”
\n“I thought that we might reminisce”
\n“See one night in your life”
\n“When you turned out the light”
\n“You asked for and prayed for my forgiveness”<\/p>\n
(6:05) You cried wolf
\nThe tears they soaked your fur
\nThe blood dripped from your fangs
\nYou said, “What have I done?”
\nYou loved that lamb
\nWith every sinful bone
\nAnd there you wept alone
\nYour heart was so contrite<\/p>\n
(6:34) You said, “Jesus, please forgive me of my crimes
\nSanctify this withered heart of mine
\nStay with me until my life is through
\nAnd on that day please take me home with you”<\/p>\n
(7:05) I can smell the death on the sheets
\nCovering me
\nI can’t believe this is the end
\nI can hear You whisper to me,
\n“It’s time to leave
\nYou’ll never be lonely again”<\/p>\n
(7:43) But this was my deathbed
\nI died there alone
\nWhen I closed my eyes tonight
\nYou carried me home<\/p>\n
(~8:05 long musical segment)<\/p>\n
(10:01) I am the Way
\nFollow Me
\nAnd take My hand
\nAnd I am the Truth
\nEmbrace Me and you’ll understand
\nAnd I am the Life
\nAnd for Me you’ll live again
\nFor I am Love
\nI am Love
\nI, I am Love<\/p>\n
(11:00) -end of song-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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