Pulled out of Denton, Texas two days and nights ago
I been living on pills and burgies, the whites of my eyes don't show
The south bound headlights are making me blind, I'm too damn tired to blink
My toes are numb and my brain's gone dumb, I can just barely think
Lo de looou, sweet Melinda, my wife
The lonesome moan of this eighteen-wheeler cuts through me like a knife
Except for you, sweet Melinda, my wife, I been riding on empty most all of my life
Two more hours till daylight, starting to rain again
A sign up ahead says welcome to Paradise, Population Ten
Me and this truck and that old white line stumbling on and on
Like three old drinking buddies coming home at dawn
Singing ooooo, sweet Melinda, my wife
The lonesome moan of this eighteen-wheeler cuts through me like a knife
Except for you, sweet Melinda, my wife, I been riding on empty most all of my life
Except for you, sweet Melinda, my wife
The lonesome moan of this eighteen-wheeler cuts through me like a knife
Except for you, sweet Melinda, my wife, I been riding on empty most all of my life
I been riding on empty most all of my life
Pulled out of Denton, Texas two days and nights ago
I been living on pills and burgies, the whites of my eyes don't show
The south bound headlights are making me blind, I'm too damn tired to blink
My toes are numb and my brain's gone dumb, I can just barely think
Lo de looou, sweet Melinda, my wife
The lonesome moan of this eighteen-wheeler cuts through me like a knife
Except for you, sweet Melinda, my wife, I been riding on empty most all of my life
Two more hours till daylight, starting to rain again
A sign up ahead says welcome to Paradise, Population Ten
Me and this truck and that old white line stumbling on and on
Like three old drinking buddies coming home at dawn
Singing ooooo, sweet Melinda, my wife
The lonesome moan of this eighteen-wheeler cuts through me like a knife
Except for you, sweet Melinda, my wife, I been riding on empty most all of my life
Except for you, sweet Melinda, my wife
The lonesome moan of this eighteen-wheeler cuts through me like a knife
Except for you, sweet Melinda, my wife, I been riding on empty most all of my life
I been riding on empty most all of my life