“Night on the Dragon”
VERSE 1
Cold on the knuckles, the dash glowing red,
Thirty degrees and the wind cut through my chest,
My brothers beside me, pipes in the air,
Red tail lights burning like a roadside prayer.
Halfway up Dragon the daylight died,
Pines turned to shadows on the mountainside,
Three hundred curves pulling us in,
Steel in our hands and a leather-skin grin.
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CHORUS
It was a cold night run on the Dragon’s spine,
Two wheels down on a crooked white line,
Headlights talking to the Tennessee sky,
Just a handful of rebels too stubborn to die.
If the road takes me, let it be true —
Me and that VTX rolling on through,
Wind in my ribs and the world in my view,
Riding that mountain with my brothers.
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VERSE 2
Two eyes flashed in the middle of the lane,
A deer stood still like a ghost in the rain,
Boot on the brake, Lord hold us tight,
All of us praying in the black of the night.
Slipped on by with an inch to spare,
Cold in the helmet, fear in the air,
State line sign like a worn old crown,
Nerves in the radios coming down.
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CHORUS
It was a cold night run on the Dragon’s spine,
Two wheels down on a crooked white line,
Headlights talking to the Tennessee sky,
Just a handful of rebels too stubborn to die.
If the road takes me, let it be true —
Me and that VTX rolling on through,
Wind in my ribs and the world in my view,
Riding that mountain with my brothers.
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BRIDGE (guitar build / half time)
We stopped at Casey’s, hands on the cup,
Twenty degrees when we fired back up,
Steam off the pipes in the parking-lot glow,
Boys laughing low like we already know.
Cold ride home with the engines slow,
Moon on the chrome and the long way to go,
Mountain behind us, miles ahead,
Stories still living in the words we said.
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FINAL CHORUS (lifted)
It was a cold night run on the Dragon’s spine,
Two wheels down on a crooked white line,
Headlights singing to the Tennessee sky,
Just a handful of rebels too stubborn to die.
If the road takes me, let it be true —
Me and that VTX rolling on through,
Tires still humming what the mountain knew,
I rode that night with my brothers.
AFTERLIFE
