Harrisburg

[Verse 1] Romero got married on the fifth of July In Our Lady of Immaculate Dawn Could have got married in the revival man’s tent But there ain’t no reviving what’s gone They slipped like a shadow from the family he made In a little white house by the woods Dropped the kids at the mission with a rose for the virgin She knew he was gone for good [Chorus] It’s a long way to heaven, it’s closer to Harrisburg And that’s still a long way from the place where we are And if evil exists, it's a pair of train tracks And the devil is a railroad car [Verse 2] Could have stayed somewhere, but train tracks kept going It seems like they always left soon And the people he ran with, they moaned low and painful Sang sad misereres to the moon [Chorus] [Verse 3] Rose at the altar, withered and wilted Romero sank into a dream He didn’t make heaven and he didn’t make Harrisburg He died in a hole in between Now some say that man is the root of all evil Others say God’s a drunkard for pain Yeah, me, I believe that the Garden of Eden Was burned to make way for a train, for a train [Chorus]