Diesel and Rust

Verse 1 Temperature needle leaning on the red Same lean I've got going on inside my head Two hundred miles of fence and not one light Just me and the things I did wearing down the night Quarter tank of going, half a tank of pride Engine coughs the way men do before they've died I talk to it now, I call it by a name It's the only thing out here that shares the blame

Pre-Chorus Burn what you got Then burn the rest Every mile out here Costs you your best

Chorus Diesel and rust, that's all I run on now Diesel and rust and a promise I can't keep somehow The tank goes empty, the body goes too Diesel and rust is what's left of me and you

Verse 2 There's a stiffness in my shoulder where the night went in A red I keep not looking at soaked through the denim thin I steer with the wrist 'cause the hand's gone slow Same as the alternator, same as the radio Sun's coming up like it doesn't know my name A clean indifferent gold across a dirty windowpane I always thought the end would have a sound Turns out it's just a needle and a flat brown stretch of ground

Pre-Chorus Burn what you got Then burn the rest Every mile out here Costs you your best

Chorus Diesel and rust, that's all I run on now Diesel and rust and a promise I can't keep somehow The tank goes empty, the body goes too Diesel and rust is what's left of me and you

Bridge A machine and a man break down the same. First the parts you don't need. Then the parts you do. Then the part that was steering the whole sad time, still aimed at a door that was never going to open. Diesel and rust, that's all I run on now Diesel and rust and a promise I can't keep somehow The tank goes empty, the body goes too Diesel and rust is what's left of me and you

Outro What's left of me and you

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