The Back Door To Heaven

My eyes are stuck on sleepless dreams

This world is never what it seems

We've sold it short it's what were taught

Lost it in the living

Allegiance is the strangest thing

It's grown too fast, grown some wings

It's flown away, flown away

The back door to heaven is open wide to me

So when I'm wrapped up tight in a hell of the night

Can I still decide to be where the mad road goes

'Neath the shapeless glow

Or will we swop ourselves like children

For the value of our innocence

A gentleman's a golden card and a red, red rose

Transformed by some strange alchemy

You stand apart and point to me

And point to something I can't see

And it's a lousy rainbow anyway

Allegiance is the strangest thing

It's grown too fast, grown some wings

It's flown away, flown away

The back door to heaven is open wide to me

So when I'm wrapped up tight in a hell of the night

Can I still decide to be where the mad road goes

'Neath the shapeless glow

Or will we swop ourselves like children

For the value of our innocence

A gentleman's a golden card and a red, red rose

Your cheating heart will choose a way

To borrow, burn and throw away

Tomorrow same as yesterday

It's a lousy rainbow anyway

The back door to heaven is open wide to me

So when I'm wrapped up tight in a hell of the night

Can I still decide to be where the mad road goes

'Neath the shapeless glow

Or will we swop ourselves like children

For the value of our innocence

A gentleman's a golden card and a red, red rose