Cairo, Il

Well the town's a [?] when you're upside down
You lay your bones on a bed, it's that easy
To have a kind of home
Where the money goes, I know too well
Spreads out like the jobs, I've worked so many
The hard days don't seem to end

Well I'm wasting time, wasting time
And I only know one way to go to start again
Let it roll, let it roll down the banks of the Ohio
When you can't rely on what you make to pay the rent on time
So I'm goin' away down to the [?]
Oh way down there in Cairo, Illinois I'm gonna stay

Now what do you say when the bottle falls out
You try to make amends with anybody
That ever caused you pain
It's no fault of mine that it should end this way
And I won't apologize to anybody
For a thing that I can't change

See I'm used to bein' along, used to bein' alone
See it's the only way that I know how to get to where I'm goin'
Let it roll, let it roll down the banks of the Ohio
When you can't rely on what you make to pay the rent on time
So I'm goin' away down to the [?]
Oh way down there in Cairo, Illinois I'm gonna stay

Woah Cairo, you build your levees tall
I wanna sit beside the water and forget about it all
Let it roll, let it roll down the banks of the Ohio
When you can't rely on what you make to pay the rent on time
So I'm goin' away down to the [?]
Oh way down there in Cairo, Illinois I'm gonna stay