The Dark Highway

Verse 1

Rain on the windshield loud as a train

Wyoming night with nobody around

My radio dead and my backup gone

Just me and a bad man and his gun

Pre-Chorus

Then the sky went black like somebody closed a door

The road turned strange and I couldn't see no more

Chorus

Out of the dark rolled a cruiser from sixty-nine

An old cop leaned out and said what's your problem son

I said I need help to catch this man

He nodded slow and he took my hand

Verse 2

We ran him down through the flooded grass

Two sets of boots and one fading siren

I turned to thank him for the save

But the road was empty and the sky went day

Pre-Chorus

Like a flash he was gone like he was never there

Just wet black asphalt and a cold wet prayer

Chorus

Out of the dark rolled a cruiser from sixty-nine

An old cop leaned out and said what's your problem son

I said I need help to catch this man

He nodded slow and he took my hand

Bridge

At headquarters the boss laid the paper down

Said that badge has been buried since sixty-nine

He died out there on that dark highway

Doing his job for a rookie like me

Chorus

Out of the dark rolled a cruiser from sixty-nine

An old cop leaned out and said what's your problem son

I said I need help to catch this man

He nodded slow and he took my hand

Post-Chorus

(He took my hand)

(He took my hand)

I can't let this memory down

No I can't let this memory down