Kilometer stones blur past the door
Diesel coughs on cold cathedral floor
Dashboard glows in amber wartime hue
Another fare another night to do
Wipers beat the rhythm of the road
Heavy arcs on wet asphalt load
Dusk descends on Munich eastern gate
Steel and rain seal driver's fate
Radio crackles static German speech
Driver lights a cigarette to reach
Thermos steam rises slow and thick
Fingers worn from gripping wheel so quick
Headlights cut through walls of falling gray
Taillights bleed like wounds that won't heal away
Guardrails stand like sentinels of old
Stories of the distance left untold
Wipers beat the rhythm of the road
Heavy arcs on wet asphalt load
Dusk descends on Munich eastern gate
Steel and rain seal driver's fate
No passenger speaks in the back tonight
Only ghosts of fares in fading light
Meter dark but engine keeps its song
Sixty years of knowing right from wrong
Exit sign for Nuremberg appears
Wipers count the passing of the years
One more curve one more kilometer stone
Then the garage lights signal coming home
Wipers beat the rhythm of the road
Heavy arcs on wet asphalt load
Dusk descends on Munich eastern gate
Steel and rain seal driver's fate
Wipers beat the rhythm of the road
Heavy arcs on wet asphalt load
Rain stops engine sighs day done
