My car's in for a brake job

Be ready in a while

Something about the waitress

Made me think about your smile

I tip her a ten spot

And I try to read her name

I'm just an old long hauler

A grinder at the game.

Heaven knows the highways

Since we've been apart

But my heart don't feel like leaving

Or you won't leave my heart

Now and then I might take

A little something for pain

But there's nothing much for heartache

And my heart has never changed

My heart has never changed.

Now there's no more rough and tumble

Down highway 199

Nothing lasts forever

I just miss it sometimes.

She comes to pour more coffee

But it's time to see more world

I pick up my check and keys

And go and pay the girl

My mind's in hell's half acre

And the rooms along exchange

And the scenes are always shifting

But my heart has never changed

My heart has never changed.