Intro
C#2 C#maj D# G#
C# D#
The air is getting hotter
C# G#
There's a rumbling in the skies
C# D#
I've been wading through the high muddy water
C# G#
With the heat rising in my eyes
Cdim C#2
Every day your memory grows dimmer
A#m G#
It doesn't haunt me like it did before
C# D#
I've been walking through the middle of nowhere
C# G#
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
C# D#
When I was in Missouri
C# G#
They would not let me be
C# D#
I had to leave there in a hurry
C# G#
I only saw what they let me see
CDim C#2
You broke a heart that loved you
A#m G#
Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore
C# D#
I've been walking that lonesome valley
C# G#
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
C# D#
People on the platforms
C# G#
Waiting for the trains
C# D#
I can hear their hearts a-beatin'
C# G#
Like pendulums swinging on chains
Cdim C#2
When you think that you lost everything
A#m G#
You find out you can always lose a little more
C# D#
I'm just going down the road feeling bad
C# G#
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
C# D#
I'm going down the river
C# G#
Down to New Orleans
C# D#
They tell me everything is gonna be all right
C# G#
But I don't know what "all right" even means
Cdim C#2
I was riding in a buggy with Miss Mary-Jane
A#m G#
Miss Mary-Jane got a house in Baltimore
C# D#
I been all around the world, boys
C# G#
Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door
C# D#
Gonna sleep down in the parlor
C# G#
And relive my dreams
C# D#
I'll close my eyes and I wonder
C# G#
If everything is as hollow as it seems
Cdim C#2
Some trains don't pull no gamblers
A#m G#
No midnight ramblers, like they did before
C# D#
I been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down
C# G#
Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door