[ti:Tryin' To Get To Heaven Before]
[ar:Robyn Hitchcock]
[al:Spooked]
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[00:00.00]Tryin' to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door - Robyn Hitchcock
[00:12.40]The air is getting hotter
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[00:18.26]There's a rumbling in the sky
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[00:24.25]I'm drifting through that high muddy water
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[00:30.18]With a full moon shining in my eyes
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[00:36.37]Every day your memory grows dimmer
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[00:41.28]It don't haunt me like it did before
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[00:48.47]I'm in the middle of nowhere
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[00:54.00]Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door
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[01:03.61]When I was in Missouri
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[01:09.79]They would not let me be
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[01:15.84]I had to leave there in a hurry
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[01:21.90]I only saw what they let me see
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[01:28.20]You broke the heart that loved you
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[01:33.02]Now you can see what the book cannot write anymore
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[01:40.67]I'm just stuck in the half-light
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[01:46.28]Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door
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[01:56.40]People on the platform
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[02:02.00]Waiting for the train
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[02:07.94]I can feel their hearts a-beating
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[02:13.55]Like pendulums swingin' on chains
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[02:19.85]When you think that you've lost everything
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[02:26.50]You find out you can always lose a little more
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[02:33.44]I'm in the dinosaurs' waiting room
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[02:39.11]Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door
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[03:39.00]I'm going down the river
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[03:45.24]Down to New Orleans
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[03:50.98]They tell me everything is alright
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[03:57.72]But I don't even know what alright means
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[04:03.21]I was riding in a buggy with Miss Mary Jane
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[04:09.84]Miss Mary Jane's got a house in Baltimore
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[04:16.77]I've been to Sugartown; I shook the sugar down
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[04:21.82]Now I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door
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[04:32.37]I'm gonna sleep down in the parlour
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[04:38.86]And relive my dreams
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[04:44.90]I close my eyes and I wonder
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[04:50.34]If everything's as hollow as it seems
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[04:57.89]Some dreams don't pull no gamblers
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[05:02.87]No midnight ramblers like they did before
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[05:10.84]I'm just goin' down the road  feelin' bad
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[05:16.59]Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door