Track Insight / Lyrics
Grease pops loud on the flat-top grill
Night shift regulars eat their fill
Coffee burns in a chipped blue cup
Letter sits where the neon's up
Wipers slap on the semi trucks
Diesel coughs and the engine bucks
Paper shakes but it don't blow away
Holding tight for the break of day
That letter sits where the neon bleeds
Rain writes its name in oil and gasoline
Truckers pass and nobody reads
The message stuck in the machine
Envelope soaked to a pulp gray skin
Address blurred by the tire track grime
Stamp drowned out where the water's been
Waiting patient for crossing time
Wipers slap on the semi trucks
Diesel coughs and the engine bucks
Paper shakes but it don't blow away
Holding tight for the break of day
That letter sits where the neon bleeds
Rain writes its name in oil and gasoline
Truckers pass and nobody reads
The message stuck in the machine
I know the hand that wrote the line
Fingers stained with the nicotine
Left it here at the county mark
Hoping light finds the paper dark
That letter sits where the neon bleeds
Rain writes its name in oil and gasoline
Truckers pass and nobody reads
The message stuck in the machine
Neon flickers a buzzing pink
Moths kamikaze the humming glass
Letter don't move, don't shrink, don't blink
Guarding the crossroads, watching pass
That letter sits where the neon bleeds
Rain writes its name in oil and gasoline
Truckers pass and nobody reads
The message stuck in the machine
Morning comes with a gray wet shine
Wipers clear the semi's view
Driver stops, reads every line
Letter's job is finally through
That letter sits where the neon bleeds
Rain writes its name in oil and gasoline
Truckers pass and nobody reads
The message stuck in the machine
Paper flies when the wind decides
Crossroads empty, neon dies
