Tryin' to Get to Heaven - Live, 2000

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 in my eyes
 Every day your memory grows dimmer
 It doesn't haunt me like it did before
 I've been walking through the middle of nowhere
 Trying, trying to get to heaven
 Before they close, close the door
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 When I was in Missouri
 They wouldn't let me be
 I had to leave there in a hurry
 I only saw what they let me see
 You broke a heart that loved you
 Now you can seal up the book you don't have to write anymore
 I've been walking that lonesome valley
 Trying, trying to get to heaven
 Before they close, close the door
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 People at the station
 Waiting on the train
 I can hear their hearts beating
 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
 Trying, trying to get to heaven
 Before they close, close the door
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 I'm going down the river
 Down to New Orleans
 I close my eyes, close my eyes and wonder
 If everything is as hollow as it seems
 Some trains don't pull no gamblers
 No midnight ramblers like they did before
 I've been all around the world, boys
 Now I'm trying, trying to get to heaven
 Before they close, close the door