[Intro] Night falls heavy on the western grade Last light bleeding on the choices made Four silhouettes in the windshield glow No final answer, just somewhere to go [Verse] We passed a chapel with a broken bell Passed a graveyard and a cheap motel Passed the diner where we learned to stand Passed the bloodline of our promised land Billy slept with his head on the glass Mara watched the white lines pass Cole hummed low to a nameless tune I drove straight into the rising moon [Pre-Chorus] The road was quiet, but not kind It carried every name behind I felt the wheel beneath my palms Like a prayer without psalms [Chorus] Saints Don’t Sleep when the night runs deep When the old ghosts gather and the young hearts weep Saints Don’t Sleep on the edge of dawn They keep one hand on the wheel and keep moving on Saints Don’t Sleep, they burn, they bleed They are not the holy kind, but the kind you need If the blacktop takes what the soul can keep Remember this, Saints Don’t Sleep [Verse] Mara said freedom has a lonely sound Like a train that never turns around Billy said maybe that’s okay Lonely means you lived to see another day Cole said I still hear Tommy’s name But it doesn’t hit me quite the same I said every scar is a road sign now We don’t get clean, but we learn how [Pre-Chorus] The stars came out like witness eyes No more running in disguise We were dust, we were debt, we were flame But we could finally speak our names [Chorus] Saints Don’t Sleep when the night runs deep When the old ghosts gather and the young hearts weep Saints Don’t Sleep on the edge of dawn They keep one hand on the wheel and keep moving on Saints Don’t Sleep, they burn, they bleed They are not the holy kind, but the kind you need If the blacktop takes what the soul can keep Remember this, Saints Don’t Sleep [Instrumental] Long guitar solo rising slow Like headlights through the afterglow Second guitar joins with a crying bend Drums roll wide where the highways end Organ swells like a distant choir Bassline walks through smoke and fire Every note becomes a mile Every bend becomes a trial [Bridge] Maybe there’s no golden gate Maybe grace is running late Maybe home is not a place Maybe it’s a weathered face In the seat beside your own Saying you don’t ride alone Maybe saints are not the clean Maybe saints are what survives between [Breakdown] No sleep No crown No turning around No shame No chains Just fire in the veins No peace No end Just brother, sister, friend [Build-up] Start the engine Wake the night Let the blacktop hold us tight Raise the dust Raise the dead Raise the words we should have said If the road is all we keep Then let it know Saints Don’t Sleep [Chorus] Saints Don’t Sleep when the night runs deep When the old ghosts gather and the young hearts weep Saints Don’t Sleep on the edge of dawn They keep one hand on the wheel and keep moving on Saints Don’t Sleep, they burn, they bleed They are not the holy kind, but the kind you need If the blacktop takes what the soul can keep Remember this, Saints Don’t Sleep [Chorus] Saints Don’t Sleep when the highway calls When the neon dies and the hard rain falls Saints Don’t Sleep when the past still screams They ride through ruins and broken dreams Saints Don’t Sleep, they break, they mend They are the road, the wound, the friend If the night gets cold and the dark gets steep Sing it loud, Saints Don’t Sleep [Outro] The sunrise waited beyond the bend No promised land, no perfect end Just tires humming through the heat And four hearts learning how to beat Blacktop Saints on a nameless line Halfway lost and halfway fine The road goes on, the secrets keep And somewhere west, Saints Don’t Sleep