Outside the gates of Heaven
There's evil going down
I can feel it all around me
It's time that I left town
The Devil walked beside me
With a suitcase in his hand
He said, "Hey son, I'm just like you
I was born a travellin' man ..."
Once I had a woman
Her heart was sweet and true
I filled it up with evil
I left her sad and blue
I walked down to the river
With a pistol in my hand
The Devil sat by my shoulder
He said, "Yeah, you're my man!"
Aboard the ship "Endeavour"
I sailed the seven seas
I put it all behind me
I thought that I was free
Then one day I met a stranger
With eyes as black as sin
He said, "My name is Abadon
But you can call me King ..."
Now my soul it lies abandoned
Kept under lock and key
And I drink to the Devil
Underneath the gallows tree
So I took my sack of silver
And I wandered back alone
I never looked behind me
For years and years I roamed
And all that I held precious
Turned to ashes in my hands
And I'm lost without direction
On the road to the Promised Land
