The Gallows Gate

Well there's a litany of sins I don't know where to begin dear its frightening Here in the grips of the law every fault every flaw on the stand For the larceny is grand and the law of the land frowns upon me There's a trail of deceit laid there at your feet but I have no leg to stand So here I am shackled bound for the scaffold I must face the judgment at hand Damn all the vipers and the unpaid pipers for no one understands For I've broken my vows I've burned down the house I'm resigned to my fate for me it's much too late Darling our love has a date at the Gallows Gate As the hangman appears and the hour draws near my mind wanders Was our love always cursed and bound for the hearse by my crimes For I've been at large I'm guilty as charged You can go ahead and throw away the key I've perjured and libeled though I swore on the bible I've burned every bridge into the sea I'll mount no defenses please spare the expenses And spare the poor jury their time I'm here to confess to the whole bloody mess You don't know the half of my crimes Forgive me my dear it's worse than you fear I've resigned to my fate for me it's much too late Darling our love has a date at the Gallows Gate Darling please don't be late As I'm lead down the hall I fondly recall the greatest of all of my crimes How I buried the hatchet mad as a bat's shit in the back of a clergyman's spine For I'm fatally flawed rejected by God I'm resigned to my fate for me it's much too late Darling our love has a date at the Gallows Gate Darling please don't be late At the Gallows Gate The Gallows Gate At the Gallows Gate The Gallows Gate At the Gallows Gate The Gallows Gate At the Gallows Gate