Cutting against the edge of the night

Propelled from behind

By a heated blast of daylight

The street radiates the swelter

Like an echo of a nuclear blast

The world seeks the night’s cool shelter

I’m driving into tomorrow

With my headlights off

Somewhere in Macon, a girl waits, lonely 

Somewhere in Reno, a baby cries, hungry 

My destiny has been to go nowhere as fast as I could ride

I’m a shadow passing fast, seen for a moment only

I can’t see her tears of sorrow

The past keeps getting lost in tomorrow

The police cruiser passes me by

He winks and grins, a shark on the sly

I’ve left some blood on the road

I wipe it across my cheek with my hand

I didn’t feel a thing

It must’ve been the Sandman

Somewhere in Macon, a girl waits, lonely

Somewhere in Reno, a baby cries, hungry

My destiny has been to go nowhere as fast as I could ride

I’m a shadow passing fast, seen for a moment only

I’m driving like a knife

Into the soft underbelly

Of a useless, wasted life

Revving the motor, I’ll bust away the rust

Gathered on my soul

Blowin’ away the dust

The smell of road and dirt and smoke

Cough up my brain when I light my bowl

Somewhere in Macon, a girl waits, lonely

Somewhere in Reno, a baby cries, hungry

My destiny has been to go nowhere as fast as I could ride

I’m a shadow passing fast, seen for a moment only

Open throttle, choke down my final pill

The odometer keeps on rising

The world moves faster when I am standing still

Where I’ll stop I have no way of knowing

I’m a cut against the edge of night sky

Burnt by the wind of Hells’ blowing

Shot straight from the heat of the day

Someone will take my place as soon as I pass by

Somewhere in Macon, a girl waits, lonely

Somewhere in Reno, a baby cries, hungry

My destiny has been to go nowhere as fast as I could ride

I’m a shadow passing fast, seen for a moment only

A blast of daylight running

Like a fiery hand placed

Against a lover’s pale breast

The night beckons me, my tires humming

I cut against the night, pedal to the floor

Dusting off a turtle in a Jaguar

The machine and I are one, in a blur

The cop didn’t see me, donuts were a two-for-one score

Somewhere in Macon, a girl waits, lonely

Somewhere in Reno, a baby cries, hungry

My destiny has been to go nowhere as fast as I could ride

I’m a shadow passing fast, seen for a moment only

I am a machine, my blood is thirty-weight

I have gone beyond the exit of my dreams

Slipped past the boundary of the far horizon of Fate

Crashed and burning, a wreck smolders and hisses

I feel the pounding in my skull, screams in my mind

Stopping the bleeding from sudden kisses

I’m shocked by the damage I’ve left behind

Somewhere in Macon, a girl waits, lonely 

Somewhere in Reno, a baby cries, hungry 

My destiny has been to go nowhere as fast as I could ride

I’m a shadow passing fast, seen for a moment only

I’ve wrecked my car, I’ve wrecked my life

Spent too long on the edge of the knife

Falling to my knees, blood rushes from my mouth

The compass is shattered, my north is now south

No one but God can hear me cry for what I’ve lost

When the scales are weighed, I must pay the cost

Somewhere in Macon, a girl waits, lonely 

Somewhere in Reno, a baby cries, hungry 

My destiny has been to go nowhere as fast as I could ride

I’m a shadow passing fast, seen for a moment only