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 in my eyes
 Everyday your memory grows dimmer
 It don't haunt me like it did before
 I've been walking through the middle of nowhere
 Trying to get to Heaven before they close the door
 When I was in Missouri
 They would not 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 and not write anymore
 I've been walking that lonesome valley
 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've lost everything
 You find out you can always lose a little more
 I'm just going down the road feeling bad
 Trying to get to Heaven before they close the door
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 I'm going down the river
 Down to New Orleans
 They tell me everything is gonna be alright
 But I don't know what alright even means
 I was riding in a buggy with Miss Mary Jane
 Miss Mary Jane got a house in Baltimore
 I've been all around the world, boys
 Now I'm trying to get to Heaven before they close the door
 Gonna sleep down in the parlor
 And relive my dreams
 I close my eyes and I 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 to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down
 Now I'm trying to get to Heaven before they close the door