The road was cold, the fog was heavy
Her headlights were just like a ghost
She said, you look innocent but I ain't crazy
I'm just too tired to drive on alone

If you don't want me to shoot you
You'll keep both hands on that wheel
She was sweet with just enough poison
I wasn't sure just what to feel

So I drove her into a sunrise
In the middle of nowhere USA
She slept peaceful as a baby
Once she put that .45 away

When she woke up we talked bout living
Where she was going, where I had been
I lit a smoke, she talked about Jesus
How He had power to raise the dead
We watched falling stars from her truck bed

And I drove her into a sunrise
In the middle of nowhere USA
She slept peaceful as a baby
Once she put that .45 away

And I drove her into a sunrise
In the middle of nowhere USA
She slept peaceful as a baby
Once she put that .45 away

We parked 'neath the burning sunrise
I held her against my chest
She said, I never would have shot you
I said I know, your gun it had no lead