Trying To Get To Heaven

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 . . .