Seven days can be a long   Long time my friend   When you dream about the cold black chair   With straps for both your hands      If you wonder what it's like   To know your life will soon be gone   Your thoughts are mostly 'bout the things   You wish you'd never done      Your face is there in the darkest night   So clear upon my wall   Yet soon I know I'm to face   The darkest night of all      For on my head they'll place   The thing that brings eternal peace   Then death will be the way   To make this ache inside me cease      A stolen kiss, a warm embrace   A secret rendezvous   They didn't seem so wrong   That night when first I met you      Then there he was, insane with rage   To see you held so tight   I didn't mean to kill him   When we had that awful fight      Seven days I've sat here   Thinking 'bout our sin   Seven days to realize   The trouble that I'm in      Seven days to weigh the price   The man will make me pay   Seven days to think 'bout   The night you ran away      Then you were gone and he lay dead   A smile upon his lips   He knew this was the last time   You'd give him the slip      Knew too, the price for stolen love   Was just too much to pay   Perhaps I too can smile like him   When my life ebbs away      He's coming out to lead me on   To that little cell-like room   I fancy your face is smiling   As we walk through the gloom      Perhaps you've found another   Who wants a rendezvous   But I'll, I'll bet he can't imagine   The price of loving you      Seven days I've sat here   Thinking 'bout our sin   Seven days to realize   The trouble I'm in      Seven days to weigh the price   The man will make me pay   Seven days to think about   The night you ran away