Three short rings
that tear a hole in the silence of midnight
No! I can't accept this dispatch
Say it and it will be the last time
But I've been running hard
So very hard
I pour another cup of coffee
Log up to date
and all I see before me
is an endless road
I'm flying down the highway
thirteen ranger in my hand
got the big wheels up and turning
moving freight across the land
I'm tired but I can make it
yeah I know just who I am
Got the big wheels up and turning
cause I am the highway man
Dawn arrives with an awesome vengeance
The roadside eerie with mist
beckons me to sleep
But I shake it off
As delay of freight will not be tolerated
I must remember what happened to the others
Take that break driver
and you'll hit the pavement
Permanently
I'm flying down the highway
thirteen ranger in my hand
got the big wheels up and turning
moving freight across the land
I'm tired but I can make it
yeah I know just who I am
Got the big wheels up and turning
cause I am the highway man
My only recollection
The deafening sound of shattered glass and
crushed metal
Amid the smoking wreckage
A family of four lay buried beneath my wheels
Their blood all over my hands
State Trooper says:
"Driver, You're under arrest.
I'm charging you with vehicular homicide."
I'm flying down the highway
thirteen ranger in my hand
got the big wheels up and turning
moving freight across the land
I'm tired but I can make it
yeah I know just who I am
Got the big wheels up and turning
cause I am the highway man
At my arraignment
I plead with the prosecution
I beg for mercy
I didn't mean to kill them
"Your victims weren't afforded mercy, Driver!"
Isn't anyone listening
Doesn't anyone understand
About an industry driven by greed
where "no" is an unacceptable answer
