Winter has come   to seal my fate   just a year ago I took that final step   took a gun and cut my sweet young lover down   the newspaper said that the bad and the beautiful   carry the burden of love      Now I simply refuse to cry   with a secret I'll take to my grave   for I have but an hour to go   now the hangman approaches death row      Oh Billy love your child has grown   I only hope that he won't be his mother's son   with a vein of madness poisoning his soul   regrets I have none but the bad and the beautiful   carry the burden of love      Now I simply refuse to cry...      Goodbye to the world I love   you have done me no good, you know   my lullaby is a bell that tolls   as the hangman approaches death row      Now I simply refuse to cry...