Ashes Scattered on Blacktop

作曲：Levi Stoker

作词：Levi Stoker

The urn was just a coffee can sewn with cracked thread

Held together by a prayer and a rusted out ledge

We stood where the highway split the desert in two

Waiting for dust to pull the old man through

No velvet curtains and no choir in the loft

Just the smell of hot oil and the world turning soft

I tipped the metal over and I let the gray fly

A cloud of gritty mem against the Kansas sky

The wind took the calcium the rain took the weight

But it couldn't touch the engine or the hand of fate

He's scattered on blacktop tonight

Dancing in the hot engine looking for a fight

The body's just a ghost in the radiator grill

But the stories took the rest and they're rolling still

Yeah you can't sweep him up

And you can't settle the dust

He's a grit in the gears in the heart of the road

Every eighteen wheeler that thunders past his spot

Kicks up a little bit of the fire he caught

He's hitching a ride on every westbound breeze

Burning through the valley and the cedar trees

He's a heavyweight phantom with a million mile stare

You can't see the man but you can feel him in the air

He's scattered on blacktop tonight

Dancing in the hot things and looking for a fight

The body's just a ghost in the radiator grill

But the stories took the rest and the road and still

Yeah you can't sweep him up

And you can't settle the dust

He's a grit in the gears in my heart of the road

The canvas is stiff but the spirit is clean

I'm the toughest down rebel that this world's ever seen

I ain't out of breath

I'm just finding my second lean

Scattered on the blacktop

Where the spores don't stop

Wind took the bone

The road is his home

He's gone

But he's gaining on