up in flames

Wake me, before my eyelids close,

I’m sitting here nodding off, trying to keep this thing pointed down the road,

But it’s closer to the shoulder than I know.

Oh, so pick me a lane, that won’t go up in flames tonight.

It might be time to slow it down, the engine’s getting hot.

Cause my foot’s been running it, ever since I filled up the tank.

And now it’s getting kind of low, and one small mistake would be all it would take tonight.

And the land it keeps on stretching out as far as I can see,

And the horizon keeps on hanging on the mountain that’s made a hill out of me.

Oh, a hill out of me. And I’d run for cover but there’d be another on me.

It’s not the cold that makes me shiver, it’s the moon that haunts me eyes,

Cause it’s staring back at me like a child that the sky left behind, oh crying in the night.

And if I could remember I’d have a chance to surrender tonight.

jungle heart