Asphalt Cowboy

Alarm screams dark and early

Coffee burns

Shirt still damp

Boot prints down that busted hallway

Name tag hanging crooked on my chest

Clock in

Same old story

Concrete sky

Burned-out sun

Breath on my neck from some new foreman

Counting minutes till I'm gone

I’m an asphalt cowboy

Working from dust till dawn

Riding on fumes and overtime

Till every last light is gone

Yeah

I’m an asphalt cowboy

Back sore

Heart holding strong

If this is the wild frontier I get

I’ll still keep rolling on (rolling on)

Lunch break in a gravel parking lot

Cold fries

Engine humming slow

Phone full of faces I ain’t seen lately

Keep saying I’ll make it home before they grow

Street signs blur like cheap motel rooms

Paycheck gone the day it lands

But I hitch my dreams to this beat-up pickup

Steering wheel skinning up my hands

I’m an asphalt cowboy

Working from dust till dawn

Riding on fumes and overtime

Till every last light is gone

Yeah

I’m an asphalt cowboy

Back sore

Heart holding strong

If this is the wild frontier I get

I’ll still keep rolling on (oh, I’ll keep rolling on)

Maybe one day I trace these tire tracks

Right out of this town

Till then it’s steel toes

Stiff neck

Head up

Eyes down

I’m an asphalt cowboy

Working from dust till dawn

Riding on fumes and overtime

Till every last light is gone

Yeah

I’m an asphalt cowboy

Back sore

Heart holding strong

If all I own is this worn-out road

I’ll still keep rolling on (rolling on)