I found no satisfaction in the lies I told to you
Anything is better than the cumbrance of the truth
So I stole your last gold dollar
Took everything I could find
Went out west to gamble
Drink out the trouble in mind
I crossed that deep muddy water
The last of my dignity and pride
Watched them sink down in the bottom of that eastern continental divide
Now I plead here in your mercy, oh the shame that I brought on us all
A beggar in the arms of charity, like Adam after the fall
And I leave you my apology, though I am doing my time
I never meant to hit the bottom of that eastern continental divide
verse
I thought I'd make our fortune
Make something outta nothing again
Like I did when I first loved you
When I was an honest man
Now my eyes are blacker than burned out tyres
As I walk to the rising sun
Too far gone for turning around
Nothing left to be won
I crossed that great smokey mountain
From Tennessee to South Carolina
Faded in the bottom of that eastern continental divide
Now I plead here in your mercy, oh the shame that I brought on us all
A beggar in the arms of charity, like Adam after the fall
And I leave you my apology, though I am doing my time
You never will get over that eastern continental divide
That eastern continental divide