[ti:Death bed ]
[ar:Relient K]
[al:Five Score And Seven Years Ago]

[08:09.54][00:00.00]Relient K
[00:31.38]I can smell the death on the sheets
[00:37.65]Covering me
[00:40.23]I can't believe this is the end
[00:52.40]But this is my deathbed
[00:59.80]I lie here alone
[01:04.45]If I close my eyes tonight
[01:10.33]I know I'll be home
[01:17.96]The year was nineteen forty one
[01:21.51]I was eight years old and
[01:23.31]Far, far too young
[01:26.45]To know that the stories
[01:28.22]Of battles and glory
[01:30.34]Was a tale a kind mother
[01:32.37]Made up for her son
[01:34.25]You see
[01:34.86]Dad was a traveling preacher
[01:38.75]Teaching the words of the Teacher
[01:42.70]My mother had sworn he
[01:44.32]Went off to the war
[01:46.96]And died there with honor
[01:48.85]Somewhere on a beach there
[01:51.10]But he left once to never return
[01:55.15]Which taught me that I should unlearn
[01:58.84]Whatever I thought a father should be
[02:03.15]I abandoned that thought
[02:05.37]Like he abandoned me
[02:07.87]By forty seven I was fourteen
[02:10.32]I'd acquired a taste for liquor
[02:13.91]and nicotine
[02:16.10]I smoked until I threw up
[02:18.07]Yet I still lit 'em up
[02:20.48]For thirty more years
[02:23.39]Like a machine
[02:26.38]So right there you have it
[02:30.32]That one filthy habit
[02:34.14]Is what got me where I am today
[02:38.89]I can smell the death on the sheets
[02:43.01]Covering me
[02:45.03]I can't believe this is the end
[02:55.08]I can hear those sad memories
[02:59.41]Still haunting me
[03:01.36]So many things
[03:04.01]I'd do again
[03:12.84]But this is my deathbed
[03:17.62]I lie here alone
[03:21.61]If I close my eyes tonight
[03:25.87]I know I'll be home
[03:30.20]I got married on my twenty first
[03:34.13]Eight months before my wife
[03:37.19]would give birth
[03:38.99]It's easier to be sure
[03:40.37]you love someone
[03:42.32]When her father inquires with
[03:44.38]the barrel of a gun
[03:46.77]The union was far from harmonious
[03:50.55]No two people could have
[03:52.17]been more alone than us
[03:54.79]The years would go by
[03:56.61]and she'd love someone else
[03:58.98]And I realized I hadn't
[04:01.06]been loved yet myself
[04:03.28]From there it's your typical spiel
[04:06.70]Yeah if life was a highway
[04:09.09]I was drunk at the wheel
[04:11.14]I was seeing the loose ends
[04:13.42]All fall apart
[04:15.23]Yeah I swear I was destined to fail
[04:18.78]And fail from the start
[04:21.93]I bowled about six times a week
[04:25.96]The bottle of Beam
[04:27.44]kept the memories from me
[04:30.03]The marriage had taken a seven-ten split
[04:33.75]And along with my pride
[04:35.71]the ex-wife took the kids
[04:38.52]I can smell the death on the sheets
[04:42.53]Covering me
[04:44.44]I can't believe this is the end
[04:54.91]I can hear those sad memories
[04:58.81]Still haunting me
[05:00.83]So many things
[05:03.01]I'd do again
[05:12.83]But this is my deathbed
[05:17.50]I lie here alone
[05:20.93]If I close my eyes tonight
[05:25.15]I know I'll be home
[05:29.66]I was so scared of Jesus
[05:31.52]But He sought me out
[05:33.70]Like the cancer in my lungs
[05:35.94]That's killing me now
[05:37.91]And I've given up hope
[05:39.40]On the days I have left
[05:41.81]But I cling to the hope
[05:43.39]Of my life in the next
[05:45.77]Then Jesus showed up
[05:47.80]Said, "Before we go up
[05:49.66]I thought that we might reminisce
[05:53.84]See one night in your life
[05:55.97]When you turned out the light
[05:58.31]You asked for and prayed
[06:01.45]for my forgiveness"
[06:05.27]You cried wolf
[06:07.71]The tears they soaked your fur
[06:11.04]The blood dripped from your fangs
[06:14.66]You said, "What have I done?"
[06:18.76]You loved that Lamb
[06:21.95]With every sinful bone
[06:25.41]And there you wept alone
[06:29.13]Your heart was so contrite
[06:33.98]You said, "Jesus,
[06:35.68]please forgive me of my crimes
[06:41.83]Sanctify this withered heart of mine
[06:48.91]Stay with me until my life is through
[06:56.06]And on that day please
[06:58.61]take me home with you"
[07:04.06]I can smell the death on the sheets
[07:09.17]Covering me
[07:11.46]I can't believe this is the end
[07:21.72]I can hear You whisper to me,
[07:27.08]"It's time to leave
[07:29.58]You'll never be lonely again"
[07:42.29]But this was my deathbed
[07:47.07]I died there alone
[07:50.96]When I closed my eyes tonight
[07:55.87]You carried me home
[Jon Foreman of Switchfoot sings, as the voice of Jesus:]
[10:01.49]I am the Way
[10:05.36]Follow Me
[10:06.44]And take My hand
[10:10.66]And I am the Truth
[10:15.69]Embrace Me and you'll understand
[10:19.94]And I am the Light
[10:24.31]And for Me you'll live again
[10:29.66]For I am Love
[10:34.26]I am Love
[10:39.58]I, I am Love