Track Insight / Lyrics
You roll through canyons where the shadows sleep
Your headlamps cut the dark where the creek runs deep
The mesa glows amber at the edge of day
You carry that fire on your steel highway
You're a steel lantern on a asphalt sea
The mesa light rides on your machinery
No keeper tends the wick but the road knows your name
You burn steady, brother, through the wind and rain
Mile markers flicker like buoys in the night
Your engine hums low like a foghorn's might
The canyon walls hold the heat of the sun
You haul the dawn before the day is done
You're a steel lantern on a asphalt sea
The mesa light rides on your machinery
No keeper tends the wick but the road knows your name
You burn steady, brother, through the wind and rain
Salt air memories rise in the cab's dry heat
I taste the brine where the ocean and desert meet
Your windshield catches the last gold ray
A beacon moving on the endless way
You're a steel lantern on a asphalt sea
The mesa light rides on your machinery
No keeper tends the wick but the road knows your name
You burn steady, brother, through the wind and rain
Night falls hard on the interstate line
But your tail lights paint a holy sign
I'd trim the wick and polish the glass
You just drive on and let the miles pass
Dawn paints the rim of the world in rose
The desert unbends where the cold wind blows
Your rig stands tall on the mesa's crown
A lighthouse keeper in a diesel town
You're a steel lantern on a asphalt sea
The mesa light rides on your machinery
No keeper tends the wick but the road knows your name
You burn steady, brother, through the wind and rain
Steel lantern, steady through the wind and rain
The lamp holds true on the long night drive
Steel lantern, you keep the dark alive
