Dead Man's Rope
Words and music by Sting
From the album: Sacred Love
A million footsteps,
this left foot drags behind my right
But I keep walking, from daybreak 'til the falling
night
And as days turn into weeks and years
And years turned into lifetimes
I just kept walking, like I’ve been walking
for a thousand years
Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,
If you're walking to escape, to escape from
your affliction
You'd be walking in a great circle, a circle
of addiction
Did you ever wonder what you'd been carrying
since the world was black?
You see yourself in a looking glass with a tombstone
on your back
Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,
Walk away in anger, walk away in pain
Walk away from life itself, walk into the rain
Now I’m suspended between my darkest
fears and dearest hope
Yes I’ve been walking, now I’m hanging
from a dead man's rope
With hell below me, and heaven in the sky above
I’ve been walking, I’ve been walking
away from Jesus' love
Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,
Walk away in anger, walk away in pain
Walk away from life itself, walk into the rain
All this wandering has led me to this place
Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of
forgiveness
I’m just hanging here in space
The shadows fall
Around my bed
When the hand of an angel,
The hand of an angel is reaching down above
my bed
All this wandering have led me to this place
Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of
forgiveness
Now I’m walking in his grace
I’m walking in His footsteps
Walking in His footsteps,
Walking in His footsteps
All the days of my life I will walk with you
All the days of my life I will talk with you
All the days of my life I will share with you
All the days of my life I will bear with you
Walk away from emptiness, walk away from sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,
Walk away from anger, walk away from pain
Walk away from anguish, walk into the rain.