Once a lost soul raced his shadow
   Down a dark road out of town
   Tried to leave himself behind him
   EAST OF EDEN WEST OF MEMPHIS
   Like a dagger through the heartland
   Over gravel dust and glass
   Storm-dark clouds and neon halos
   EAST OF EDEN WEST OF MEMPHIS
  
  
   This is how the story goes
   Took a miracle to make him go
  
   Stopped at midnight miles from nowhere
   Got out dropped down on his knees
   In the dirt he wrote her name out
   EAST OF EDEN WEST OF MEMPHIS
   Home was just a broken promise
   No good reason to turn back
   AM stations drift to static
   EAST OF EDEN WEST OF MEMPHIS
  
  
   The greatest story never told
   Took a miracle to make him go
  
  
   In a house there hangs a picture on the wall
   Of them in better days before the bitter fall
   Before a quiet man slipped out into the night
   A disillusioned man walked out without a fight
  
  
   SIHPMEM FO TSEW NEDE FO TSAE