The Highway Reaper

There's a blacked-out Kenworth on the interstate line With no license plates and no corporate design It roams in the midnight, it hunts in the gray Looking for drivers who are losing their way If your eyelids are heavy, if you're falling asleep The Highway Reaper is coming to reap His high beams flash like a lightning surprise And you'll look at the devil right into his eyes The Highway Reaper is hunting tonight Catching the truckers in the pale moonlight Spitting fire from the pipes, burning up the midnight road He's collecting the souls that are ready to load Don't close your eyes, boy, don't fade into black 'Cause the king of the highway is on your track He doesn't want cargo, he don't care for the weight He's the official collector of destiny's fate He hunts down the tired, he traps the unwary With an air horn blast that is bloody and scary I saw him behind me, his grille made of bone And the roar of his engine was a funeral tone But my Peterbilt roared back, we refused to give in To the master of shadows and the father of sin The Highway Reaper is hunting tonight Catching the truckers in the pale moonlight Spitting fire from the pipes, burning up the midnight road He's collecting the souls that are ready to load Don't close your eyes, boy, don't fade into black Drink your coffee, hit the gas, stay awake This is a promise that you cannot break If you close your eyes for a second or two The man in the black truck is coming for you I pushed through the fatigue, I broke through the night Until the horizon was bleeding with light The black truck faded back into the mist Another close call on the casualty list The sun came up bright on the windshield glass And I saw the shadow of the Reaper pass The Highway Reaper is hunting tonight Catching the truckers in the pale moonlight Spitting fire from the pipes, burning up the midnight road He's collecting the souls that are ready to load Don't close your eyes, boy, don't fade into black 'Cause the king of the highway is on your track Stay awake, trucker He's still out there in the dark