Legend in the Rearview Dust

作曲：Levi Stoker

作词：Levi Stoker

The taillights bled into the purple of the sage

Another ink-stain blotted on a tattered road map page

He didn't leave a fortune or a marble carving name

Just a smell of burnt-out gasoline and a whisper of his shame

They say he drove like lightning was a leash he couldn't hold

Left a trail of broken promises and a heart that wouldn't fold

The asphalt's got a memory that the rain can't ever wash

The ghost of every gear he stripped and every light he crossed

Oh, he's a legend in the rearview dust

Fading but he's there

Like the static on a radio or the salt stain in the air

You can park the rusty chassis and you can let the iron rust

But you can't outrun the echo of the man that we entrust

Yeah, the engine might be frozen and the driver's long since cold

But the story's kicking up the grit, story's never getting old

Old men at the counter talk about the night he flew

Passed the county line at ninety while the sky was turning blue

They argue 'bout the detail, was it whiskey?

Was it love?

Or was it just the weight of all the things he couldn't juggle?

He's a shadow where the truck stops, he's a rumble in the pines

The only saint who ever limped between the devil and the lies

Oh, he's a legend in the rearview dust

Fading but he's there

Like the static on a radio or the salt stain in the air

You can park the rusty chassis and you can let the iron rust

But you can't outrun the echo of the man that we entrust

Yeah, the engine might be frozen and the driver's long since cold

But the story's kicking up the grit, story's never getting old

He's gone for eight

Hear that whistle?

He didn't die, he just dissolved into the grit

He's the spark in every engine, he's a vow when it's lit

A heavyweight phantom rolling through a dawn

Rearview dust and the things we trust

Engine's cold

Oh, the truth's been told