Sulfur and Gold Lyrics

I went down to Sulfur River

It was getting on Spring

Sure didn't smell too pretty but

It was something I had to see

Sometimes we all get homesick

For sweet Babylon

The rest of the time we spend running

From the only one we've got

And there ain't no way

But the long way home

Don't get too wearied down

To hold your crown

My dearest brother in the whole wide world

Pushed himself off the wagon again

Last step from the top of that mountain, said

I best quit while I'm ahead

If I can't make it up there

I'm making her come down

To the bottom of this bottle

Where she knows I will be found

And I read about a king

And everything he touched turned gold

It was just like heaven

'Til he tried to eat

And he tried to drink

And he tried to find his heart a little ease

It was just like heaven

And there ain't no way

But the long way home

Don't get too wearied down

To hold your crown

So I went back to Sulfur River

It was coming on Fall

Started wondering if she was deep enough

To drown in, 'cause all in all

It was either my sins or me

That had to sail on

And I didn't know where the first one ended

Or the next began

But I read about a king

And everything he touched turned gold

It was just like heaven

'Til he tried to eat

And he tried to drink

And he tried to find his heart a little ease

It was just like heaven

And there ain't no way

But the long way home

Don't get too wearied down

To hold your crown

There ain't no way

But the long way home

Don't get too wearied down to hold

Don't get too wearied down to hold

Don't get too wearied down to hold your crown