[Intro]
Boy, you better learn something
'Cause you keep working out here in this hotass gravel
On this damn truck all your life

[Verse 1]
Spray a little ether in the breather
And hope she cranks
Pour a little Folgers from the thermos
And take a drink
Hardpack them Marlboro reds
Check the oil and the recap treads
Little Rock’n'roller on the radio
You're gonna miss your boys
But it’s time to go

[Chorus]
Put eighteen hours on eighteen wheels
With little white pills nippin' at your heels
Like some outlaw asphalt cowboy in the wind
Ridin' high till you run out
It's an uphill battle just gearin' down
Try'n'a to get somewhere on a road that just don't end
Racin’ time and losin’ miles you'll never get back again

[Verse 2]
Little boy wishin’ he was fishin' in his dreams
Never got to know you too good
Now he says things he don't mean
Ya couldn't make a good thing last
Always had to go so fast
But age caught up, slowed you down
And the days, they just fly by now
[Chorus]
Like eighteen hours on eighteen wheels
With little white pills nippin’ at your heels
Like some outlaw asphalt cowboy in the wind
Ridin' high till you run out
It's an uphill battle just gearin' down
Try'n'a to get somewhere on a road that just don't end
Racin' time and losin' miles you'll never get back again

[Bridge]
Well. this cat in the cradle never got a silver spoon
Now I run the roads just like you
There's cities between her and me
And a real-life
Man, I swear that it feels like

[Chorus]
Eighteen hours on eighteen wheels
With little white pills nippin' at my heels
Like some outlaw asphalt cowboy in the wind
Ridin' high till I run out
It's an uphill battle just gearin' down
Try'n'a to get somewhere on a road that just don't end
Racin' time and losin' miles I'll never get back again