Knocked on the gates

They said"Not yet"

Died on a Tuesday, woke up Thursday night

Devil took one look and said"This ain't right"

Too much fight left in these busted bones

Hell's got standards and I'm too far gone

Lucifer laughed, said"Boy you're a mess""Even down here we got levels of distress""You belong up there with the living and breathing""Dragging that weight and barely believing"

Hell sent me back

Said I wasn't done

Too much unfinished pain to run from

Hell sent me back

Didn't want my soul

Even the damned said"Man, you're too cold"

I knocked and they turned me away at the door

Guess I got more living left to settle the score

Hell sent me back

Asked the reaper for a one-way ride

He checked his list and stepped aside"Your name's in pencil, not in pen""Boy, you're going back to fight again"

Saint Peter shook his head up top

Said"Heaven's closed, you missed your shot"

So here I am, stuck in between

The angriest ghost you've ever seen

Hell sent me back

Said I wasn't done

Too much unfinished pain to run from

Hell sent me back

Didn't want my soul

Even the damned said"Man, you're too cold"

I knocked and they turned me away at the door

Guess I got more living left to settle the score

Hell sent me back

You know you're in trouble when even the devil says"Not today, brother, you need more days"

When hell's too full and heaven's too tight

And you're stuck here clawing through another night

So I'm walking this earth with a second shot

Darker than before but I ain't forgot

How it feels to stand at the final line

And get turned around one more time

Call it a curse, call it a gift

Either way I'm here taking every shift

Hell didn't want me, heaven won't call

So I'll raise my own kind of hell after all

Hell sent me back

Said I wasn't done

Too much unfinished pain to run from

Hell sent me back

Didn't want my soul

Even the damned said"Man, you're too cold"

I knocked and they turned me away at the door

Guess I got more living left to settle the score

Hell sent me back

Yeah, hell sent me back

Guess I'm immortal till I finish what I started