Bob Dylan - Tryin' to Get to Heaven (Live, 2000) Lyrics

Lyrics Tryin' to Get to Heaven (Live, 2000) - Bob Dylan



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
Tryin' 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
Tryin' 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
Tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door
I'm going down the river
Down to New Orleans
They tell me everything is gonna be all right
But I don't know what ["all right"] even means
I was riding in a buggy with Miss Mary Jane
Miss Mary Jane got a house in Baltimore
I been all around the world, boys
Now I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door
Gotta sleep down in the parlor
And relive my dreams
I'll 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 been to Sugartown, I shook the sugar down
Now I'm tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door



Writer(s): Bob Dylan


Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 (Deluxe Edition)

1 32-20 Blues (Unreleased, "World Gone Wrong")
2 High Water (For Charley Patton) [Live, 2003]
3 Most of the Time - Alternate Version from 'Oh Mercy' sessions
4 Someday Baby (Alternate Version, "Modern Times")
5 Red River Shore (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
6 Tell Ol' Bill (Alternate Version) [From the "North Country" Soundtrack]
7 Born In Time (Unreleased, "Oh Mercy")
8 Can't Wait (Alternate Version, "Time Out of Mind")
9 Everything Is Broken - Alternate Version from 'Oh Mercy' sessions
10 Dreamin' of You - Outtake from 'Time Out Of Mind' sessions
11 Huck's Tune (From Lucky You Soundtrack)
12 Marchin' to the City (Unreleased, "Time Out of Mind")
13 Series of Dreams - Outtake from 'Oh Mercy' sessions
14 God Knows (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
15 Can't Escape from You (Unreleased, December 2005)
16 Dignity - Outtake from 'Oh Mercy' sessions
17 Ring Them Bells (Live At The Supper Club, 1993)
18 Ain't Talkin' (Alternate Version, "Modern Times")
19 'Cross the Green Mountain - from 'Gods and Generals' OST
20 Duncan and Brady (Unreleased, 1992)
21 Cold Irons Bound (Live, 2004)
22 Mississippi (Unreleased Version #3, "Time Out of Mind")
23 Most of the Time (Alternate Version #2, "Oh Mercy")
24 Ring Them Bells (Alternate Version, "Oh Mercy")
25 Things Have Changed (Live, 2000)
26 Red River Shore (Unreleased Version #2, "Time Out of Mind")
27 Born In Time (Unreleased Version #2, "Oh Mercy")
28 Tryin' to Get to Heaven (Live, 2000)
29 Marchin' to the City (Unreleased Version #2, "Time Out of Mind")
30 Can't Wait (Alternate Version #2, "Time Out of Mind")
31 Mary and the Soldier (Unreleased, "World Gone Wrong")




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