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Running From The Semis

Genres

blues

Style

Lively acoustic bluegrass with brisk banjo rolls, flatpicked guitar, and high-lonesome male vocals, Fiddle saws and answers the vocal in call-and-response; upright bass walks a steady two-beat, Verses stay nimble and story-driven, chorus opens with soaring harmonies and a stomp-on-the-floor lift, Short instrumental tag after the second chorus lets the band stretch, then a tight, a cappella tag on the title line, bluegrass

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Two-lane ribbon round the mountain
Fog lay low on Sunday morn
Daddy's knuckles white as gravel
Mama said
"That road was born
Out of sweat and busted axles"
Windows down
That cold wind moaned
We were kids in the back
But it shook us to the bone

[Chorus]
We were running from the semis on those curves
Headlights in the mirror
Steel and nerve
Engine crying
Hearts on fire
Praying that the gears would hold the wire
No interstates
Just switchback signs and crows
We grew up on Appalachian mountain roads

[Verse 2]
CB chatter like a language
We could almost understand
Chrome grill grinning in the rearview
Breathing down like some big hand
Pine trees swayed above the guardrail
Creek flashed silver far below
Every downshift felt like thunder
In that rusted four-speed glow

[Chorus]
We were running from the semis on those curves
Headlights in the mirror
Steel and nerve
Engine crying
Hearts on fire
Praying that the gears would hold the wire
No interstates
Just switchback signs and crows
We grew up on Appalachian mountain roads

[Bridge]
Now they’ve carved the hills in pieces
Smoothed it out in painted lanes
But I close my eyes and feel it
Every rattle
Every chain (oh Lord)
Young and small against that rumble
Learning how the brave are made
Fear and faith in equal measure
On those climbs we never named

[Chorus]
We were running from the semis on those curves
Headlights in the mirror
Steel and nerve
Engine crying
Hearts on fire
Praying that the gears would hold the wire
No interstates
Just switchback signs and crows
We grew up on Appalachian mountain roads

[Outro]
Yeah
We grew up on
Appalachian mountain roads