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[00:33.10]I can smell the death on the sheets
[00:38.03]Covering me
[00:40.49]I can't believe this is the end
[00:53.72]But this is my deathbed
[01:00.25]I lie here alone
[01:04.78]If I close my eyes tonight
[01:11.57]I know I'll be home
[01:18.37]The year was nineteen forty one
[01:22.45]I was eight years old and
[01:23.91]Far far too young
[01:26.78]To know that the stories
[01:28.59]Of battles and glory
[01:30.60]Was a tale a kind mother
[01:32.81]Made up for her son
[01:34.37]You see
[01:35.02]Dad was a traveling preacher
[01:39.04]Teaching the words of the Teacher
[01:43.11]But mother had sworn
[01:45.17]Went off to the war
[01:47.28]And died there with honor
[01:49.14]Somewhere on a beach there
[01:51.35]But he left once to never return
[01:55.47]Which taught me that I should unlearn
[01:59.50]Whatever I thought a father should be
[02:03.32]I abandoned that thought
[02:05.33]Like he abandoned me
[02:07.84]By forty seven I was fourteen
[02:11.20]I'd acquired a taste for liquor and nicotine
[02:16.08]I smoked until I threw up
[02:18.50]Yet I still lit 'em up for thirty more years
[02:23.40]Like a machine
[02:26.25]So right there you have it
[02:30.33]That one filthy habit
[02:34.06]Is what got me where I am today
[02:38.88]I can smell the death on the sheets
[02:42.81]Covering me
[02:44.77]I can't believe this is the end
[02:55.41]I can hear those sad memories
[02:59.43]Still haunting me
[03:01.49]So many things
[03:04.00]I'd do again
[03:12.99]But this is my deathbed
[03:17.63]I lie here alone
[03:21.21]If I close my eyes tonight
[03:26.02]I know I'll be home
[03:30.34]I got married on my twenty first
[03:34.26]Eight months before my wife would give birth
[03:38.48]It's easier to be sure you love someone
[03:42.37]When her father inquires with the barrel of a gun
[03:46.33]The union was far from harmonious
[03:50.60]No two people could have been more alone than us
[03:55.13]The years would go by and she'd love someone else
[03:58.75]And I realized I hadn't been loved yet myself
[04:03.17]From there it's your typical spiel
[04:06.93]Yeah if life was a highway
[04:09.00]I was drunk at the wheel
[04:11.16]I was helping the loose ends
[04:13.62]All fall apart
[04:15.44]Yeah I swear I was destined to fail
[04:18.60]And fail from the start
[04:21.62]I bowled about six times a week
[04:25.54]The bottle of Beam kept the memories from me
[04:29.91]Our marriage had taken a seven-ten split
[04:33.57]Along with my pride the ex-wife took the kids
[04:38.50]I can smell the death on the sheets
[04:42.18]Covering me
[04:44.40]I can't believe this is the end
[04:54.95]I can hear those sad memories
[04:58.74]Still haunting me
[05:00.65]So many things
[05:03.51]I'd do again
[05:11.63]But this is my deathbed
[05:18.06]I lie here alone
[05:21.79]If I close my eyes tonight
[05:26.29]I know I'll be home
[05:30.72]I was so scared of Jesus
[05:32.63]But He sought me out
[05:34.74]Like the cancer in my lungs
[05:36.80]It's killing me now
[05:38.97]And I've given up hope
[05:41.03]On the days I have left
[05:42.79]But I cling to the hope
[05:44.45]Of my life in the next
[05:46.71]Then Jesus showed up
[05:48.92]Said "Before we go"
[05:51.34]"I thought that we might reminisce"
[05:54.85]"See one night in your life"
[05:57.21]"When you turned out the light"
[05:59.78]"You asked for and prayed for my forgiveness"
[06:05.11]You cried wolf
[06:08.33]The tears they soaked your fur
[06:11.04]The blood dripped from your fangs
[06:14.72]You said, "What have I done?"
[06:19.28]You loved that lamb
[06:21.80]With every sinful bone
[06:25.18]And there you wept alone
[06:29.31]Your heart was so contrite
[06:34.03]You said, "Jesus, please forgive me of my crimes
[06:41.87]Sanctify this withered heart of mine
[06:49.05]Stay with me until my life is through
[06:56.19]And on that day please take me home with you"
[07:05.29]I can smell the death on the sheets
[07:10.51]Covering me
[07:11.32]I can't believe this is the end
[07:22.73]I can hear You whisper to me,
[07:27.11]"It's time to leave
[07:29.17]You'll never be lonely again"
[07:42.85]But this was my deathbed
[07:47.97]I died there alone
[07:51.61]When I closed my eyes tonight
[07:56.62]You carried me home
[08:13.29]
[09:59.20][Jon Foreman of Switchfoot sings, as the voice of Jesus:]
[10:01.22]I am the Way
[10:04.78]Follow Me
[10:06.19]And take My hand
[10:10.31]And I am the Truth
[10:15.10]Embrace Me and you'll understand
[10:19.52]And I am the Life
[10:24.05]And for Me you'll live again
[10:29.52]For I am Love
[10:36.12]I am Love
[10:40.09]I, I am Love