The Verdict Lyrics - Singles - October 31

Let me take you to a prison 

Where a man is dying behind bars 

His death is right before him 

But it's not his choice and it's not his fault 

They served him wrong and placed him 

Here to die upon death row 

And there's little now to help this man 

For their justice ha been done 

A jury turned a blinding eye 

Now death is all he sees 

And now he has no choice at all 

But to die in misery 

Oh God above why don't you lend a hand? 

To this scarred and helpless soul 

Of an innocent man 

For if you're up there in the sky 

Why don't you make it right? 

Just turn him loose and end his fight 

Turn him loose and make this right 

He's reached the final hour 

As the minutes have ticked his life away 

But mercy hasn't come for him 

So he looks for faith 

And he starts to pray 

As the seconds fall he's taken 

To the place he'll die tonight 

While the preacher comes to read 

To him his final dying rites 

As they walk to death 

The man is screaming 

An innocence from the crime 

And the priest believes the words he hears 

From the sadness in his eyes 

He tells the priest he once believed 

In God above and serving thee for life 

But God has chosen him to die 

To make him pay for another's crime 

A lie, it's just a lie 

But faith is dead and now it's time 

To end the pain and say goodbye... 

As the man died before them 

The electric chair was charged to kill 

While the priest was staring at the sky 

The smell of death just filled the air 

Yes, the verdict death was carried out 

On the man who did no wrong 

The end for him had finally come 

And his soul it now was gone 

When the call did come after his death 

Claiming that the man was free 

All were shocked except the priest 

Who knew the travesty 

Oh God above why did you take his life? 

Is he at peace there standing by your side? 

Has his non-belief been born again, 

For will we ever know? 

The many reasons for the way things go 

The many reasons for the way things go 

Your many reasons for the way things go 

Your many reasons for the way things go