Harrisburg

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

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

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 its a pair of train tracks
And the devil is a railroad car

Could have stayed somewhere
but the train tracks kept going
And it seems like they always left soon

and the wolves that he ran with
they moaned low and painful
sang sad misereres to the moon

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 its a pair of train tracks
And the devil is a railroad car

Rose at the altar withered and wilted
Romero sank into a dream

He didn't make Heaven, he didn't make Harrisburg
He died in a hole in between

Some say that man is the root of all evil

Others say God's a drunkard for pain

Me I believe that the Garden of Eden
Was burned to make way for a train

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 its a pair of train tracks

And the devil is a railroad car