Track Insight / Lyrics
Morning coffee in a chipped white cup
You check the gauges, cold and clear
The mesa stretches, lifting up
No fare to catch, no passenger near
You tune the nitrous on the mesa
Where sunlit dust meets engine roar
The canyon echoes what you sow
A thousand horses at the door
Your taxi rests on cinder blocks
But here you're king of torque and steel
The fiddle dances round the clocks
While cylinders begin to heal
You tune the nitrous on the mesa
Where sunlit dust meets engine roar
The canyon echoes what you sow
A thousand horses at the door
Wooden flute cuts through the shimmering heat
Like exhaust on a winter morn
You grin and wipe the grease complete
A masterpiece, not slightly torn
You tune the nitrous on the mesa
Where sunlit dust meets engine roar
The canyon echoes what you sow
A thousand horses at the door
Sun beats down on valve and spring
The desert swallows every sound
You know the song the pistons sing
Before the wheels kiss holy ground
Now thunder rolls from manifold throat
The mesa shakes with raw delight
You've turned a wrench into a note
That sings across the fading light
You tune the nitrous on the mesa
Where sunlit dust meets engine roar
The canyon echoes what you sow
A thousand horses at the door
Mesa nitrous, bright and clean
Best tune this driver's ever seen
