Smokey Mountain Rain

I wish I was out of the war reading Rimbaud on the shores
Of Lake Superior
In some backstreet lover's car
In the hallways of the emperor
I'd let liberty go down
Through the watery eyes
Of a dying American flag
Through cigarette smoke
She'll dance on the edges of the hillside dressed in drag
All through a Mexican grin
The Alamo came and remembered him
With a shotgun in his hands, the barrel smoking
As she clutched at the tuft of the night
No it ain't right that
She should go through all this pain

Smokey Mountain rain
Ripping out my heart
Smokey mountain rain
Tearing me apart
Smokey mountain rain
Heaven help me get her out of the rain

In the Eastern Twilight grill
She sits next to him on the hill
With beads of sweat rolling down her face
She's a Cadillac design
In the image of the human race
And mother nature swears that's it's not her to blame
But the placed her in the gamblers chair
They tied her down Lord they ripped out her hair
Mother, mother what's it like up there?
You called out to me and you drag me inside
Between the gutter in the alley and the continental divide
You laced in morphine I swallow my pride
Take me back to
Nashville, Tennessee

Smokey Mountain rain
Tearing me apart
Smokey mountain rain
Ripping out my heart
Smokey mountain rain
Heaven help me get her out of the rain

And it's pounding in my brain
From the Mississippi River to the South Dakota plains
And it's pounding in my brain
From the Mississippi River to the Nelson Mountain range
And it's pounding in my brain
From the Mississippi River to the ghosts of the Pontchartrain
And it's pounding in my brain
From the Mississippi River to the South Dakota Plains
Heaven help me get her out of the rain