To Say Goodbye, To Be Forgiven

Are you one foot in the grave, or one step closer to your savior

Brother tell me how it feels, it's much too soon to meet your maker

You ain't ever walked a line, boy, you always were a rebel

Now ain't no time to strike a deal now, now for someone to cheat the devil



Won't get a nickle for your name, no, 'course you won't need it where you're going

But brother tell me can you feel, now, the winds of change that started blowing

It ain't a hot and dusty road, no, it ain't a highway it's a journey

Sure you're walking for the train still, but it's a train that's bound for glory



Every man is born to die, there ain't no mystery but livin'

Brother tell me is it hard to say goodbye, to be forgiven

You won't ever get it back, don't you hear the angels calling

'Cause you listen to them now, now that the tears have started fallin'



When he reaches out his hand for you, and you kneel before you savior

Say, your brothers know you're gone now, gone to heaven a believer

Say, your brothers know you're gone, gone to heaven a believer