St Peter’s Gate
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1. I was lost in the dark, and the fear was in
my heart,
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all
around me the forest and the rain.
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Then with the flash
of a light, I saw it in the night,
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I
must be getting near Saint Peter's Gate !
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2. When I went through the door, he was
standing in the hall,
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an
old man with a beard of shining white,
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He said, "I've
been expecting you, let me show you to your room",
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and
he took me all the way by candlelight.
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And
lying there on the bed, a book, black & red,
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my
name was written on the front in gold,
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and
when I opened it up, there were pictures of my life,
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and
a voice began to call from down below.
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Nobody will get through,
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nobody, not even you, can escape the judgement
day.
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Nobody will be spared, heaven is only there,
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for
the ones who satisfy them at
Saint Peter's Gate.
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4. "Come with me," said that old man,
as he took me by the hand,
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"There is someone here that you have seen before.
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In
this room on the left, a man who did his best,
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to
bring joy and happiness to one and all.
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But in that room on the right, a dictator in
life,
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we've been waiting for him here, as you can tell.
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For
all the blood he's spilled, and for all the ones he's killed,
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we
condemn him to eternity in hell.
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5. I woke up with the dawn, there was someone
in my room,
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a
woman, like an angel all in white,
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And
then she told me, "You must run, for your time has yet to come,
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go
now, before they change their minds",
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And
from the window I saw, a thousand or
more,
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bringing that dictator to his knees.
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And
his cries broke the sound, of my footsteps on the ground,
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as I
made it to the safety of the trees.
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St. Peter’s Gate.
(orig. = capo 4th) (Chris de Burgh)