The air is getting hotter
There's a rumbling in the skies
I've been wading through the high muddy water
With the heat rising through my eyes
Every day your memory grows dimmer
It doesn't hurt me like it did before
I've been walking through the middle of nowhere
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
People on the platforms
Waiting for the trains
I can hear their hearts a-beatin'
Like pendulums swinging on chains
When you think that you lost everything
You find out you can always lose a little more
I'm just going down the road feeling bad
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door
Oooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door
I'm going down the river
Down to New Orleans
They tell me everything is gonna be all right
But I don't know what "all right" even means
I close my eyes and I wonder boys
If everything is as hollow as it seems
I been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down
Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door
Oooh trying to get to heaven before they close the door . . .
