When I take a one way ticket to the road of no return On a journey every man must make someday When it´s time to meet my father and explain my sins away
I will tell him, yes I´ll tell him I have lived
I have lived each single moment, as a man of flesh and blood With my soul and all my senses open wide I have lived and tasted everything that called out to be tried I´m afraid of neither heaven nor of hell Never caring if I had a soul to sell
I was no more optimistic than my fellow man would be I have always been an artist not a saint Now the neon lights are dimming no more costumes no more paint I admit that I was selfish, I have lived
I have lived a life of running after joy and happiness
With my feelings always tearing at my heart Oh my lord, I should have thought of my salvation at the start But on earth so many mornings I was told You would take a sinner back into the fold
If my reasons seem too fragile and my words of no effect And forgiveness is the one thing I must win I´ll explain my life and show you all I am and all I´ve been And I´ll say for my defence, thatI have lived
I have lived with soul on fire with desire in my skin In the name of all the women I have known I have worshipped at the shrine of love and if I must atone
I´ll be ready then to kneel and pay the price For the yesterdays I spent in paradise