Mud Creek Road Lyrics

There's a two mile stretch of highway

Near a mining town in southern Illinois

With potholes big as craters

And a one lane bridge that tempts you to destroy

The heartless strands of sanity

That you worked so hard to build so long ago

And it saves you eighty seconds just to drive it

It's not safe but it's the way you always go

Because you're driving toward the future only two and a half minutes behind

It's an hour before sunrise and the universe is beginning to unwind

It's another kind of sunrise and all the other shortcuts have been sold

So you find yourself ignoring better judgement

Doing ninety miles an hour

Flying down mud creek road

There's a rise in the road about a half a mile down

No shoulder to save you should you slip

As you accelerate from seventy to eighty

Grab the steering wheel and get a better grip

You pray to God that someone isn't coming up

The other side at sixty miles an hour

Flash your brights and set your sights

On some lonesome sense of vanity and power

Because you're driving toward the future only two and a half minutes behind

It's an hour before sunrise and the universe is beginning to unwind

It's another kind of sunrise and all the other shortcuts have been sold

So you find yourself ignoring better judgement

Doing ninety miles an hour

Flying down mud creek road