When the skies come to sweep up the floors And the night comes to open the doors All blues are gone and the white lights are on While leaves dance a tango on somebody's lawn On the rising, a pencil line sandalwood shore And in the end I'm going down swinging Standing out in the pouring rain All of our friends will be singing The band plays 'Long Black Veil' again When the day is done and the skies move alive in your head And the weight has come, an ocean of oranges and red The sun's setting somewhere, so maybe we'll go there We'll be there tomorrow while chasing today I find amazement lost in something you said And in the end I'm going down swinging Standing out in the pouring rain All of our friends will be singing The band plays 'Long Black Veil' again You can't put it on, can't put it on And then the night comes, it's time to go home