Crawling Eye of Route 66

Somewhere past Barstow where the desert don't end The truckers stopped talking 'round a long dead bend CB radio hissing, nothing but static and dread "Don't stop at the diner" - that's all that it said The waitress had one eye and it wasn't her own The cook in the back hadn't moved since unknown The jukebox kept playing a song with no name And every car that pulled over - never left the same Crawling Eye of Route 66 Out where the blacktop ends and the darkness begins Crawling Eye of Route 66 It watches the highway, it watches you drive Crawling Eye - ain't nothing gets out alive Johnny from Tulsa said he saw it last June A mass in the darkness underneath the full moon Bigger than a Buick, older than the road Moving real slow with a biblical load The state troopers laughed - filed it under "unknown" But Trooper Bill Henderson never came home They found his patrol car, engine still running Whatever was driving - it sure wasn't coming Don't pull over, don't slow down Don't look in the mirror on the edge of this town Crawling Eye of Route 66 Out where the blacktop ends and the darkness begins Crawling Eye of Route 66 It watches the highway, it watches you drive Crawling Eye - ain't nothing gets out alive Mile marker nothing no signal, no light the radio whispers "don't stop tonight" something in the asphalt something in the heat something with no eyelid something that don't sleep CRAWLING EYE OF ROUTE 66 OUT WHERE THE BLACKTOP ENDS AND THE DARKNESS BEGINS CRAWLING EYE OF ROUTE 66 IT WATCHED THE HIGHWAY, IT WATCHED YOU DRIVE CRAWLING EYE - AIN'T NOTHING GETS OUT ALIVE "...don't stop."