Hangman Lyrics

How you doing there, granddad, sitting in the broken light

With your fishing wire, waiting for a bite?

How you doing there, preacher, walking gently past?

Of course God loves you, do you need to ask?

And there's no way of knowing, no earthly way of showing

All the thoughts inside their heads as they make up their earthly beds

Swaying in the wind

If there's no hope for the hangman, there's no hope at all

We're all moving through life this way, dancing on a cannonball

If there's no hope at the gallows, or underneath the hanging tree

Maybe it's how they cope, baby don't take it from me

No, baby, ask the hangman

How you doing there, mother, staring at the twisted tree?

At my life's unfolding, shed a tear for me

I needed to die to show me that

there's no way of knowing

No earthly way of showing, all the thoughts inside their heads

As they make up their earthly beds, swaying in the wind

If there's no hope for the hangman, there's no hope at all

We're all moving through life this way, dancing on a cannonball

If there's no hope at the gallows, or underneath the hanging tree

Maybe it's how they cope, baby don't take it from me

No, baby, ask the hangman

Am I to heaven, or am I to hell? Am I to heaven, or am I to hell?

Am I to heaven, or am I to hell?

If there's no hope for the hangman, there's no hope at all

We're all moving through life this way, dancing on a cannonball

If there's no hope at the gallows, or underneath the hanging tree

Maybe it's how they cope, baby don't take it from me

No, baby, ask the hangman