Track 2 of the album Diesel Hymns · 2008
Mile Marker Nine-Forty
“I really did leave a coffee on the roof and watch it sail off past a Texaco sign. Sometimes the funniest thing on a long drive is your own stupidity.”
slow rock · heartland rock · truck-stop rock · 3:24
Lyrics
Left a coffee on the roof of the car Watched it fly off past the Texaco sign Had a hundred in my boot and a half a tank of gas And a map that I never did read right Radio's fading out of Amarillo Some preacher's talking low and then he's gone I'm singing every word to a song I don't know Just to keep the empty seat from feeling wrong Mile marker nine-forty, I'm still rolling Nobody here to tell me where to stop Mile marker nine-forty, I'm still going Cold wind in my hair and my boots on the clutch and the dashboard top I don't know where it ends But I'm done looking back Pulled in at a diner with a flickering neon pie Waitress called me honey, poured me black Said everybody comes through here running from something And most of them come through again, going back Mile marker nine-forty, I'm still rolling Nobody here to tell me where to stop Mile marker nine-forty, I'm still going Cold wind in my hair and my boots on the clutch and the dashboard top I don't know where it ends But I'm done looking back Maybe I'll call my mother from a pay phone in the morning Maybe I'll just let her wonder one more day The sky is turning copper at the edge of the world And the road is long enough to change my ways Mile marker nine-forty, I'm still rolling Nobody here to tell me where to stop Mile marker nine-forty, I'm still going Cold wind in my hair and my boots on the clutch and the dashboard top I don't know where it ends But I'm done looking back Mile marker nine-forty Mile marker nine-forty Rolling on