Mama, take this badge from me
 
 I can't use it anymore
 
 It's getting dark, too dark to see
 
 Feels like I'm knockin' on Heaven's door
 
  
  Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
 
 Hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah
  
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
  
 
 Mama, put my guns in the ground
 
 I can't shoot them anymore
 
 That cold black cloud is coming down
 
 Feels like I'm knockin' on Heaven's door
  
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
 
 Hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah
  
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
  
 
 (You just better start sniffing your own rank subjugation, Jack
 
 'Cause it's just you against your tattered libido
 
 The bank and the mortician, forever, man
 
 And it wouldn't be luck if you could get out of life alive)
  
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
 
 Hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah
 
 (Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door)
  
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
 
 (Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door)
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
 
 (Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door)
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
 
 (Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door)
  
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door
 
 Knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door