[Verse 1] Stevie Greenbuds, he drives all night Through a dead brown world with a busted taillight Ash on the hood and blood on the door He keeps one eye back and one eye on the floor Boots on the dash, Bible in the seat A half-pint bottle and a broken teeth beat He lost his girl at the blacked-out bend Now every mile feels like it won’t end [Pre-Chorus] He hears them howlin’ through the bone-dry wind Feels that fear crawl back up his skin No rest for the tired, no safe place left Just Stevie Greenbuds and the road he left [Chorus] Run, Stevie Greenbuds, run The world went red and the good ones run Run, Stevie Greenbuds, run You got a thin hard heart and a borrowed gun (Oh, Stevie) run, Stevie Greenbuds, run [Verse 2] They come in trucks with the flags burned black One from the front, two circlin’ back They laugh like hounds when they smell your trail And Stevie grips steel with a hand gone pale He hides by a church with a caved-in roof A mailbox bent and a tireless truth There ain’t no mercy in the dust he knows Just a long gray mile and a mouth of crows [Pre-Chorus] He tastes the rust when the sirens fade Sees his own shadow look afraid Every bad man wants his name Every empty field repeats that flame [Chorus] Run, Stevie Greenbuds, run The world went red and the good ones run Run, Stevie Greenbuds, run You got a thin hard heart and a borrowed gun (Oh, Stevie) run, Stevie Greenbuds, run [Bridge] He thinks of home in a yellow frame Of a porch swing creak and a dog by the lane But home got swallowed by smoke and flame Now all he owns is that stubborn name So if you find him where the road goes thin Tell him the dark did not win Tell him the dawn still owes him one Tell Stevie Greenbuds, keep runnin’, son [Chorus] Run, Stevie Greenbuds, run The world went red and the good ones run Run, Stevie Greenbuds, run You got a thin hard heart and a borrowed gun (Oh, Stevie) run, Stevie Greenbuds, run
