On the eve of judgement under the fiery sky

The angel of death came to take me home,

He wore a big assed smile as he was

Leading me away and then the truth hit me

Like a freight train out of the night;

The black angel let me go and I

Had to race with Michael to

The pearly gates and when I met

Saint Peter and looked him in

The eye he simply said that I

Could go straight on down;

Midnight came on my way through purgatory

And the heathens sang their praises to me,

The exalted nonbeliever,

As I faced Armageddon in the name

Of all the living, dying and dead;

I walked along the beach of shadows,

My lone footprints trailing behind me

As I looked to the sky in time to see

My tormented, pitiful past catch up with

Me in a rain of fire before I ran into

The ocean and danced on holy water while

The demons of apocalypse screamed their

Vengeance upon me;

Looking for my new challenge,

I ran into the four horsemen and they

Showed no signs of sympathy passing

Me on their ride of destiny;

I came to the edge of Eden and faced

The fiery sword before the serpent

Helped me to crawl back to my womb;

As the angel opened seal after seal,

I saw that the prophecies were all

Man made and looking back to the unholy

Darkness from where I had come,

I saw that the secret hosts of evil

Were just a bunch of greedy white men;

So I started to dig my tunnel of

Hopelessness with my faith in god

When a spaceship landed on the

Beach before me,

And just when I thought that

I had seen it all,

God stepped out with open hands and said,

“Here’s another chance boy,

Take it and be good for goodness sake!”

And from somewhere near,

I could hear the Black Angel

Laughing to beat the devil . . .