Romero got married on the fifth of July
 In our Lady of Immaculate Dawn
 Could have got married in the revival man's tent
 But there ain't no reviving what's gone
 Slipped like a shadow from the family he made
 In a little white house by the woods
 Dropped the kids at the mission, with a rose for the virgin
 She knew he was gone for good

 It's a long way to Heaven, it's closer to Harrisburg
 And that's still a long way from the place where we are
 And if evil exists, it's a pair of train tracks
 And the devil is a railroad car

 Could have stayed somewhere but the train tracks kept going
 And it seems like they always left soon
 And the wolves that he ran with moaned low and painful
 Sang sad miseries to the moon

 It's a long way to Heaven, it's closer to Harrisburg
 And that's still a long way from the place where we are
 And if evil exists, it's a pair of train tracks
 And the devil is a railroad car

 Rose at the altar withered and wilted
 Romero sank into a dream
 He didn't make Heaven, he didn't make Harrisburg
 He died in a hole in between
 Some say that man is the root of all evil
 Others say God's a [bad word] for pain
 Me I believe that the Garden of Eden
 Was burned to make way for a train