Lay down in the morning
Rise up on the wrong end of the day.
Sleeping in an empty room.
A million walls, they all the same.

Carolina black night moan
Like an earth bound train.
Where the old mad men roam.
Sometimes they go astray.

Down on the wrong end.
Down on the wrong end of the day.

Lay down in the morning.
Rise up on the wrong end of the day.
Cotton and the railroad dawn.
Woman and a Choctaw baby.

Shadows of the endless sun.
Like an earth bound train.
Shadows of the empty moon
Like a mountain about to break

Down on the wrong end.
Say you're never crawling...down.

Down along the wrong end of the day.