I Have Lived - Marc Almond

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 maker 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 & happiness

With my feelings always tearing at my heart

Oh my lord, I should have thought of my salvation at the start

But I lived so many mornings I was told

You would take a sinner back into the fold.

If my reasons seems 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 save in my defence, well I have lived

I have lived with soul on fire with desire in my skin

in the name of everyone I’ve ever known

I have worshipped every shrine of love and if I must at all I’ll be ready then

to kneel and pay the price

For the yesterday’s I spent in paradise

I have lived, My Life