I was looking for my exit on the interstate sign
But the wind went and blew it down
I took the wrong right turn 'bout a half a mile back
My directions all spun around

Through the sideways rain and the love and the shame
Watched the sunlight disappear
Then the sun so black said you never make it back
Till you do some hard time out here

God gave me the rain
To wash away my pain
Learned from bad mistakes I made the hard way

The rain let up as I came to a stop
Right between two cotton fields
I saw a coal black crow in an old dead tree
Staring right back at me

I wanted to surrender when my eyes went blind
A thunderbolt split the sky
I noticed I was headed down the same dirt road
Robert Johnson sang about

God gave me the rain
To wash away my pain
Learned from bad mistakes I made the hard way

God gave me the rain
To wash away my pain
Learned from bad mistakes I made the hard way

The hard way