"The Gift Of Life" lyrics

I look all around me what do I see? Man's greedy minds in a sick society
My life is a struggle a battle with time, no chance to sleep in a city of crime
Problems have gripped me I can't run and hide – grass isn't greener on the other side
Each day I awake I'm faced with the same, the treadmill of life has left me insane

I slowly feel my body ageing
A stranger inside me so hard to disguise
I'm not the man that was once created
Please help me God, it's hard to die

The rent's in arrears I'm well overdrawn, I've lived on the breadline since the day I was born
If there's a friend out there who would understand, we'd share the burden both hand in hand
But I search for that love, it's something I'll never find, I'm trapped in illusion leave reality behind
I glance in the mirror my father looks back at me – his face tells a story of his sad son's insanity

I slowly feel my body ageing
A stranger inside me so hard to disguise
I'm not the man that was once created
Please help me God, it's hard to die

Now it's time to free the bitterness in me
A better life I must find, to leave the world behind
God will take my hand; show me to his promised land
To find love eluding me in peace joy and harmony
Destroy the devil I have made, to my chest I plunge a blade
As the knife goes in, I feel a pain within
My body now it's time to rest, when the steel leaves my chest
My evil spirits start to show, to this new life I must go