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