Track Insight / Lyrics
Found a tape beneath the seat
Labeled Mix ninety-seven
Rain had washed the window clean
Like a road between unseen
Scratched my fare beside the drum
Every truth was left to hum
Mix ninety-seven, play it loud
Keep the lost ones in the crowd
Steel is tired, but it rolls
Rain can come and streets can fold
Let the old heart spin again
Hold me steady through the rain
Copper evening on the glass
Streetlights stitched the windshield black
Radio muttered through the snow
Like a warning from long ago
Engine hummed beneath my boots
Grit and thunder in their roots
Winter wrote my fare in white
Morning found me driving still
Shoulder carried every loss
Through the dust and stubborn cross
Five old memories stand tall
Shadows shift across the wall
Mix ninety-seven, play it loud
Keep the lost ones in the crowd
Steel is tired, but it rolls
Rain can come and streets can fold
Let the old heart spin again
Hold me steady through the rain
Strip the music to the wire
Leave one breath beside the fire
Every scar has learned to sing
Every goodbye had a ring
When the final echoes rise
Love still lights the road inside
Years have rubbed the tape thin
Still that midnight pulls me in
Every needle finds the sound
Turns the silence into ground
Now I carry both their names
Down the road where daylight reigns
Mix ninety-seven, play it loud
Keep the lost ones in the crowd
Steel is tired, but it rolls
Rain can come and streets can fold
Let the old heart spin again
Hold me steady through the rain
Window down, the morning low
Gravel road begins to glow
Mix ninety-seven at the end
Turns the weather into friend
I have loved, and lost, and stayed
Stubborn as the break of day