Roy harper hangman lyrics

Last night I wasn't sleeping

I knew it was my last

I've just been lying thinking

Reliving all my past

My family and friends have left

My children are all lost

And now I'm standing in a death cell

As the sands of time fall fast



My poor heart it is thumping

My head is fit to flood

To feel that rope around my neck

And know it's there for good

I know that I am innocent

And no one's understood

And now I'm standing on the gallows

To be murdered in cold blood



We are creatures of darkness

Killers of time

We are creatures of darkness

Bodies in lime



Hangman oh hangman

How sleepless is your bed

I can't believe my own ears

My heart is full of lead

That you'd apply and get the job

Of pulling off my head

And leave me kicking in the darkness

Splattering the walls with blood



Hangman oh hangman

You're working in the shade

For creatures of the jungle

Whose message is displayed

In graphic tones of blood revenge

All down the civil blade

And you're the creasy little monkey

Who murders to be paid



And in about six minutes time

I'll be thrown into the lime

By the screws who dug my grave

Who never felt the shame

Who threw me in still breathing

As they covered me with slime

And stuck me on a map in the governors office

A number with no name



We are creatures of darkness

Killers of time

Creatures of darkness

Bodies in lime



And as true as I stand here

I would wish to be untied

To rip those lies clean out your throats

That my death might somehow be justified

There's no unconsecrated ground

In my heart or in my mind

I lived and died in a world full of snakes

And I'm buried in a vicious lie



We are creatures of darkness

Killers of time

Creatures of darkness

Bodies in lime