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