Well, the Amtrak Cresent is a north bound train
When you can't afford to stay no more in New Orleans
So I bought the cheapest ticket and I carried my clothes
And the blubber beneath my eyes and a broken nose

'Cause when life goes wrong, it just goes on and on
When life goes wrong, the train rolled on

When the rainbow held like the burning hand
The mecca fellow wants to stay in Alabama
So I crossed into Georgia in the Eastern town
Dirty as a peach taken off my mind

That when life goes wrong it just goes on and on
When life goes wrong, the train rolled on

Somewhere between right and wrong
Somehow I manage to keep moving on
Searching for anyplace but where I am
Any first and second chance

'Cause at a stop in Charlotte at a hard flick joint
Seemed like forever to reach high point
This purty devil, there's a ghost filled rail
If you listen you can hear the engineers wife wail

Then when life goes wrong it just goes on and on
When life goes wrong, the train rolled on, let go

Hey, better save the molasses at the state bull run
For every journey you don't get along with anyone
And just to cross a river you could change your tune
Like all the politicians up in DC do

When life goes wrong it just go on and on
When life goes wrong, just do, just drag on

Somewhere between right and wrong
Somehow I manage to keep moving on
Searching for any place but where I am
Any first second third forth five sixth seventh and eight chance

You know it used to be pretty on the Eastern shore
Now, it's more New York down to Baltimore
Take so much effort just to move one train
Why does everything around me have to look the same

Like when life goes wrong it just goes on and on
When life goes wrong, it just drags on
When life goes wrong, it just drags on and on
And on and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on and on