Knockin´ On Heaven's Door
Bossa and Roses Lyrics

Mama take this badge from me
I am asking my mother to take this badge, probably a police badge, from me because I can no longer use it.

I can't use it anymore
I cannot use the badge anymore, probably because I have quit the police force.

It's getting dark too dark to see
The environment around me is getting darker and difficult to understand or navigate.

Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
I feel like I am close to death, as if I am knocking on heaven's door.

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
I am repeating my feeling of being close to death, as if I am knocking on heaven's door.

Mama put my guns in the ground
I am asking my mother to bury my guns because I no longer have a use for them.

I can't shoot them anymore
I cannot use the guns anymore, probably because I no longer want to harm anyone.

That cold black cloud is comin' down
I sense a feeling of darkness and despair, as if something ominous is coming toward me.

You just better start sniffin' your own rank subjugation jack
A warning to someone that they should start examining their own oppressive tendencies.

('Cause it's just you against your tattered libido)
(Because you are alone in your struggle against your worn-out sexual desires)

(The bank and the mortician)
(The system of capitalism and death, which are out to get you)

(Forever man and it wouldn't be luck if you could get out of life alive)
(Death is certain and inescapable, and it would not be luck if you managed to survive)

Wow oh yeah
An exclamation of emotion or excitement, perhaps in response to the preceding lines about death and despair.