Turning Gold

[Verse 1]
I drove from Apalachicola in a hundred-year deluge
I hated every second of that bridge from Baton Rouge
Crossed the swamp to Texas, blew a tire out on 10
These Beaumont boys, they look at me like I ain't one of them, I ain't one of them

[Verse 2]
Hooker on the wrong side of Houston called me Suge
When I was pourin' radiator fluid underneath the hood
My driver's side is ridin' rough on the baldest spare
I gnawed off every nail I have, I'm always in repair

[Chorus]
Every highway warns of danger
Everyone out here's a stranger
Every tale I wanna tell's already told
It's always dark before the dawn
But it's been dark for so damn long
Damn it, man, the truth can be so cold
But somewhere, there's a sunset turning gold

[Verse 3]
Sixty miles to San Antone, I'm speeding to the turn
Patrolman on the overpass, guess I'll never learn
That close ain't close at all until I'm really there
And I can smell the jasmine as I'm walkin' up the stairs

[Chorus]
Every highway warns of danger
Everyone out here's a stranger
Every tale I wanna tell's already told
It's always dark before the dawn
But it's been dark for so damn long
Damn it, man, the truth can be so cold
But somewhere, there's a sunset turning gold

[Chorus]
It's always dark before the dawn
But it's been dark for so damn long
Damn it, man, the truth can be so cold
But somewhere, there's a sunset
Somewhere, there's a sunset
I know where a sunset's turning gold

[Outro]
Turning gold
Turning gold