Well the Amtrak Crescent 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 blood beneath my eyes from a broken nose

When life goes wrong this train goes on and on

When life goes wrong this train goes on



Well there aint no ham like the Birming-ham

To make a fella wanna stay in Alabam

But I crossed into Georgia into Eastern Time

And dared to eat a peach to take it off my mind

When life goes wrong this train goes on



Somewhere between right and wrong

Somehow I manage to keep moving on

Searching for any place but where I am

and a first and second chance



At stop in Charlotte found a hogs leg joint

Seemed like forever 'til we reached High Point

Now Lynchburg to Danville that's a ghost filled rail

If you listen you can hear the engineer's wife wail

When life goes wrong this train goes on



Better say Manassas if you say Bull Run

Or in Virginia you won't get along with anyone

But just across the river you can change your tune

Like all the politicians there in DC do

When life goes wrong they just go on

Chorus



It used to be pretty on the Eastern Shore

Now its more New York down to Baltimore

It took so much effort just to move this train

Why does everything around me have to look the same?

Like when life goes wrong, it just goes on and on