This town has my name branded, I can't go back to where I was born
Dreams running through sand and, people caught in the storm
Well I can't change the past, any more than you
And I can't change, these sins I've made, though it's what I'd like to do.

I can't expect forgiveness, forgiveness I don't deserve
Can't walk in to town, and expect not to be stoned
For the mistakes, at the time I couldn't admit, myself I served
And yet after all this time, my soul I have honed.

Loss hit me like a brick pile, it hit me in the face
I don't have what I used to have, and I had hardly a thing
People I've hurt, the poll can't be erased
Condemned by the lonely king.

So here I walk from Heaven's gates,
Heaven's gates wouldn't open,
So here I walk from Heaven's gates,
Heaven's gates wouldn't open,

Tragedy won't change my mind, and there's no price to be paid
All I'm asking for is for someone to be saved
A plea for something, I don't deserve, a life I've never made
All I want is for my record to be clean, and this horrible mess forgiven.

I don't belong where I think I do
I don't belong at all
You can't leave somewhere, on a September morn
And expect it to still be fall.

And I'm sorry my best wasn't enough for you
So sorry that I failed in all I could do
So sorry, I'm on my hands and knees
At the sign that labels the town.

And the angels yelled! It was hypocrisy!
No one expected this tragedy,
And the angels yelled! It was hypocrisy!
No one expected this tragedy,

And this pain, I can't keep holding
And the shame, it keeps on building
Lend an ear, if you have compassion for the lost
Those people who forgot, hatred has a cost.
Still human enough, to know the fire burns hot
And what I think I am, I'm probably not.

And the angels yelled! It was hypocrisy!
No one expected this tragedy,
And the angels yelled! It was hypocrisy!
No one expected this tragedy!

The town where I don't belong
And the apology, I've already made
Forgive the fallen angel, forgive that he couldn't be strong
Maybe someday, people's minds will change
He'll go back to his home, where he began
Maybe he'll forget he's still a boy, and become a man
But for now, he sits by the town's only sign...


So here I walk from Heaven's gates,
Heaven's gates wouldn't open,
So here I walk from Heaven's gates,
Heaven's gates wouldn't open.