Track Insight / Lyrics
You sit high in a rusted tower
Counting every midnight hour
Watching headlights cut the black
Following a one-way track
The coffee's cold and tasting thin
Wait for the long haul trip to begin
The reel spins round a heavy spool
Playing by the desert rule
Oh, you're the king of the open line
Tracing every white paint sign
Glass and gasoline in your sight
Burning through the Arizona night
You see a chrome grill flash and gleam
Slicing through a static dream
A lonely trucker hauling freight
Racing toward a closing gate
The coffee's cold and tasting thin
Wait for the long haul trip to begin
The reel spins round a heavy spool
Playing by the desert rule
Oh, you're the king of the open line
Tracing every white paint sign
Glass and gasoline in your sight
Burning through the Arizona night
Your fingers flick a heavy switch
Catching every rhythmic hitch
Projecting ghosts on canyon walls
Until the morning siren calls
Oh, you're the king of the open line
Tracing every white paint sign
Glass and gasoline in your sight
Burning through the Arizona night
A red sedan with a broken light
Struggling through the velvet night
You track the drift and the sudden swerve
Holding onto every curve
Oh, you're the king of the open line
Tracing every white paint sign
Glass and gasoline in your sight
Burning through the Arizona night
The sun creeps up in a copper haze
Setting all the scrubland ablaze
You shut the lens and you dim the glare
Scent of diesel in the morning air
Oh, you're the king of the open line
Tracing every white paint sign
Glass and gasoline in your sight
Burning through the Arizona night
Just keep it rolling. Glass and gasoline.
(Harmonica fade)