At The Gate

Will it be my Uncle Ronnie, I barely knew him when he left He was only nineteen when he crashed that red Corvette Will it be my great grandmother with some cookies that she baked Oh, I wonder who's gonna greet me at the gate Will it be my goodfriend Matthew who spent his life in a chair Will he coming running to me the day I get up there Or that bully back in high school I told my Mama that I hate Oh, I wonder who's gonna greet me at the gate Will it be a choir of Angels with some heavenly refrain Or Saint Peter like I've always heard with his big book of names Will it be my old dog, Bailey, who died when I was eight Oh, I wonder who's gonna greet me at the gate [Instrumental Interlude] I pray it's not my wife, my daughter or my son Cause that would mean the good Lord took em before my time was done Tonight, they're all sound asleep as I lie here wide awake And I wonder who's gonna greet me at the gate We're brought into this world with God only knows how many years We crawl, we walk, we run, we dance We cry a million tears And in a flash our lives are over And we're face to face with fate Oh, I wonder who's gonna greet me at the gate Who's gonna greet me at the gate