Cab pulls up where maples sigh
Eighteen wheels kiss gravel dry
Iron rungs catch summer light
Summer dusk sings hymns tonight
Iron ladder holds the weight
Of every mile and midnight freight
Where choir boys and altos sang
Hallelujah on the range
Iron ladder speak my name
CB crackles coordinates fade
Logbook rests on dashboard shade
Fingers trace the rusted bar
Summer night holds who we are
Steering wheel gets left behind
Hymnal pages in the mind
Soprano laughs from decades past
Song in the cooling glass
Iron ladder holds the weight
Of every mile and midnight freight
Where choir boys and altos sang
Hallelujah on the range
Iron ladder speak my name
Diesel pulse slows to a breath
Organ tones in rust and rest
Te Deum rises from the chest
Iron sings the final test
Dawn will break on interstate
But tonight the ladder waits
Trucker kneels on lowest rung
Hallelujah on his tongue
Iron ladder holds the weight
Of every mile and midnight freight
Where choir boys and altos sang
Hallelujah on the range
Iron ladder speak my name
Iron ladder speak my name
Humming low beneath the breath
Alto trace in summer dusk
Iron ladder calls us home
