This hide knows every mile of blacktop road
Cracked seams hold tight beneath the desert load
Wheel burns hot when the sun climbs high
But we stay cool when the night draws nigh
Desert grip desert grip we don't slip
Eighty-six beats let the highway rip
Arizona wind sings through the fingers
Leather sings loud and the memory lingers
Passenger side wears a different shade now
Sun-bleached fingers where the first fare was paid
Dashboard cracks like the earth in drought
But we don't speak we just ride it out
Mile markers blur like cheap whiskey in glass
Four hundred thousand miles on the pass
No AC just the window rolled down
Taste alkali dust of this border town
Desert grip desert grip we don't slip
Eighty-six beats let the highway rip
Arizona wind sings through the fingers
Leather sings loud and the memory lingers
Steering column shakes like a prayer in wind
Metal remembers every hand that sinned
But we just hold we just hold the line
Through salt flats flashing in the morning shine
Dawn comes sharp over the Superstition peaks
Old engine coughs blood but the pistons speak
One last fare to the edge of the map
Then we'll hang soft in a driver's lap
Desert grip desert grip we don't slip
Eighty-six beats let the highway rip
Arizona wind sings through the fingers
Leather sings loud and the memory lingers
Desert grip desert grip we don't slip
Desert grip holds long after the engine dies
Leather remembers what the highway buys
