According to Blackie, the song’s about a soldier seriously wounded and agonizing to death during the Iraq War, reaching heaven and being turned away by St. Peter, the guardian of heaven’s gates according to Christian lore, because Heaven is full, leading the soldier back to his body and the pain of...
I can't take anymore
I have no more wings
I can't take anymore
The gates of heaven sealed
Don't you hear me
Don't you hear me
Don't you fear me
Of never coming back
Do you know what it's like
When heaven's hung in black
I can't take anymore
Our walls are black and bleak
I can't take anymore
No rooms here for your screams
Don't you hear me
Don't you hear me
Don't you fear me
Of never coming back
Oh, no more tears please
Hanging heaven black
No don't you leave me to die
Don't you leave me to die
Don't you leave me to die
No don't you leave me to die
And you'll know what it's like
The wailing wall of sighs
Hanging heaven black
And you'll know what it's like
When paradise is blind
When heaven's hung in black
Time – How can you say
That I've no time
Am I blind – now you say that
Heaven's blind, yeah
Across the bridge of sighs, blind, time, time
Oh lord, don't you leave me to die
No, don't you leave me to die
Don't you leave me to die
No lord, don't you leave me to die
And you'll know what it's like
The wailing wall of sighs
Hanging heaven black
And you'll know what it's like
When paradise is blind
Painting heaven black
Across the bridge of sighs
You're losing heaven's light
Heaven's hung in black
Heaven’s Hung in Black was written by Blackie Lawless.
Heaven’s Hung in Black was produced by Blackie Lawless.
W.A.S.P. released Heaven’s Hung in Black on Mon Apr 16 2007.