driving a hundred miles an hour down a dead end road johnny and june singing jackson on the radio i got a cigarette burning in my left hand i always say im not a smoker but i guess i am and all the rights and passes in the pouring rain its a two lane road and i am running the wrong way with my foot on the gas and no place to go i hear my fathers voice saying take it slow oh you can its a heaven down a dead end road well im a pretty bad person but a really good fool just lost all my money in a gambling pool but i hurt like the devil and look like hell oh im a little lost if you can tell and all the rights and passes in the pouring rain its a two lane road and i am running the wrong way with my foot on the gas and no place to go i hear my fathers voice saying take it slow oh you can its a heaven down a dead end road who is this inside my skin i gotta find myself again for i make it to live oh this two lane road in the pouring rain before i run out of chances to change my ways with my foot on the gas and no place to go i hear my fathers voice saying take it slow oh you can its a heaven down a dead end road oh you can its a heaven down a dead end road