Verse 1 Rain coming down heavy. (Pause - subtle Hammond organ) Washing out the line. (Pause) Tires on the blacktop. (Pause) Leaving it all behind. (Pause - warm electric guitar bends a low note) Wind through the floorboards. (Pause) Blowing cold and north. (Pause) Wipers on the glass. (Pause) Rocking back and forth. Pre-Chorus I don't know where it leads. (Pause) Don't care where it goes. (Pause) Keep this old engine running... (Drummer hits a rimshot) Nice and slow. Chorus Rain at Mile 66. (Electric guitar cries out) Beating on the hood of this truck. (Pause) I got nowhere I need to be. (Pause) And I ain't trusting to luck. (Pause) Rain at Mile 66. (Hammond organ swells) Lord, let it wash me clean. (Pause) Just me and the empty road. (Pause) And the ghosts in the machine. (Lonely harmonica fill) Verse 2 Dashboard glowing yellow. (Pause) Coffee’s gone to ice. (Pause) Radio spitting static. (Pause) Rolling the devil's dice. (Pause - acoustic guitar hits a hard, muted chord) Town up ahead is sleeping. (Pause) Town behind is dead. (Pause) I just keep the shadows... (Pause) Out of my head. Pre-Chorus I don't know where it leads. (Pause) Don't care where it goes. (Pause) Keep this old engine running... (Drummer hits a rimshot) Nice and slow. Chorus Rain at Mile 66. (Electric guitar replies with a slow, muddy riff) Beating on the hood of this truck. (Pause) I got nowhere I need to be. (Pause) And I ain't trusting to luck. (Pause) Rain at Mile 66. (Hammond organ swells) Lord, let it wash me clean. (Pause) Just me and the empty road. (Pause) And the ghosts in the machine. Bridge (Music strips back. Just the upright bass walking a slow, heavy line and brushed drums) Headlights cut the darkness. (Pause) Slicing through the black. (Pause) Once you cross that county line... (Pause) Ain't no going back. (Harmonica wails, kicking off a short, slow, soulful instrumental solo) Final Chorus (Full band comes back in, slightly heavier but still restrained) Rain at Mile 66. (Pause) Beating on the hood of this truck. (Pause) I got nowhere I need to be. (Pause) And I don't need much. Rain at Mile 66. (Electric guitar soars quietly in the background) Let it wash me clean. (Pause) Sometimes this lonely road... (Pause) Is all I need. Outro Mile 66. (Pause) Rain coming down. (Pause - subtle bass slide) Mile 66. (Pause) Not a soul around. Just rolling. (Pause) Keep on rolling. (Music starts to fade) Till the morning comes.
