She said
You smell like blood and gasoline
You look like life run down
Too many miles of my memories
Run through this little town
Asphalt and leather
And the smell of her skin
You take the bad with the better
Because the story never ends
And all the speed and the power I have engraved in my veins
Oh baby, the ghosts of the gutter
Are all still screaming my name
I’ve been over the line
(So many) too many times
All the bridges I have burned
Remain as scenes of my crimes
All the lessons I’ve learned
Lived and left behind
She touches me there, where
Her fingers find the scars
She listens to my stories
Words that break her heart
I tell her of the woman once
But she can’t fight the past
She’s never been the first girl there
Or the one they can’t forget
She asks me if I’ll stay this time
I say don’t wait no more
My soul lies across the county line
Paid the Devil to settle the score
This life leaves pieces of me on the streets of every town
Now I’m just a memory in the headlights lost and found
That’s where she’ll bury me when they shut my engine down
