I've been driving fourteen hours

I could use some company

But lipstick kiss and faded flowers

Is all she left for me

I met her in a diner, asked her what her name was

Asked her if she'd like to see my rig and she laughed

She tossed the red carnation underneath the front seat

Tried to say she's not that kind of girl but she was

She wants to settle down, she knows a trucker never does

Just another truck stop angel

Sent down the highway from above

Just another pit stop on the speedway of love

I went down to the racetrack

I entered the second heat

They said the red car out there was the one to beat

I made it to the finals, the red car right behind me

Passed me just before the checkered flag and I lost

The girl who kissed the winner asked me if I would meet her

Under the bandstand down by the finish line and then

Later in her trailer I crossed that line time and time again

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See the headlights gleaming

Hear the engines roar

From my eyes the tears are streaming

Falling to the floor

The road ahead is just a blur I slow down and pull over

I think of all the women I have found and forgot

Some girls like movie stars, sad songs on the radio

Some girls like the smell of gasoline and exhaust

For every chance I take there's another I have lost

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