Steel River Prayer

Verse

Rainwater slick on the hood of my old truck

Engine coughs and stalls like it's giving up

Radio station skips to static and back

Same three miles I've been crawling through all morning

Gas gauge blinking red at half past ten

Still I don't hit that kill switch yet again

Pre-Chorus

I ain't got nowhere else to be tonight

Just this road and the amber light

Tell me what a man's gotta do to stand still

When every muscle wants to keep on running till

Chorus

So I'm gonna let it all just burn down

Every last thing that I don't need now

Watch the whole world go up in smoke and rain

Nothing left but this steel river prayer, praying for the same

Just a little longer, hold the wheel tight

Keep on driving into the black of night

Verse

Cracked windshield rattle like a rattlesnake skin

Dust from every mile that I've been running from within

Same four bars of Highway 55 blues playing out

Every town looks exactly the same as I spin through it like a ghost in glass

Barefoot on the seat, boots kicked off somewhere back around mile marker seven

Sun's dipped down to nothing but gold turned to grey

Pre-Chorus

I ain't got nowhere else to be tonight

Just this road and the amber light

Tell me what a man's gotta do to stand still

When every muscle wants to keep on running till

Chorus

So I'm gonna let it all just burn down

Every last thing that I don't need now

Watch the whole world go up in smoke and rain

Nothing left but this steel river prayer, praying for the same

Just a little longer, hold the wheel tight

Keep on driving into the black of night

Bridge

Maybe freedom's not a destination at all

Maybe it's just the road you won't give up to the dark

I'm gonna learn that by the time this tank runs dry

Every mile I lose is a mile I'm still alive

Chorus

So I'm gonna let it all just burn down

Every last thing that I don't need now

Watch the whole world go up in smoke and rain

Nothing left but this steel river prayer, praying for the same

Just a little longer, hold the wheel tight

Keep on driving into the black of night