When you hear me knocking don't you give a second thought

You know who I've been running with and you know that I've been caught

Nothing I can say can change the way that I've lived my life

When you hear me knocking at the gates of hell tonight

You know I'll be knocking at the gates of hell tonight



So when you hear me knocking open up and let me in

Cause this is not a game and nobody ever wins

I could tell you I'm sorry for the things I've said and done

But I'm doing it again it seems my minds a loaded gun

My mind is a loaded gun



There's a stretch of road I've driven at least a thousand times

It's the kind of road that don't forgive my thoughts and selfish lies

I'm headed down that road again and I know I just might

See your face through the bars of the gates of hell tonight

Through the bars of the gates of hell tonight



I thought I'd found my way out but it's too late to put it right

It's the heart of midnight and my luck's run out tonight

I tried to put the past behind I thought I'd seen the light

But it was just the flames burning at the gates of hell tonight