All Who Pass Must Pay

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All Who Pass Must Pay

What is it comes in the night
Pray my soul to keep
A voice of rusted iron
That will not let me sleep
Once we stood the crossroads down
Sent the devil on his way
There's a toll bridge on the highway now
All who pass must pay

One lamp creakin' in the wind
Outside Champ's Texaco
The motel in behind it
Closed up ten years ago
The windows are all broken
But it's never been torn down
Dead but for the stories
Like most things in this town

Ghosts of our grandfathers
Talk in the corner booth
Jukebox sings of trouble, Jim
And don't it tell the truth
Our little town has dwindled down
To half of what it was
Freeway blows right past it now
The world's forgotten us

The truckers get their coffee
Out on the Interstate
No one gets up early here
And nothing's open late
Shadows break the light in two
Dreams go underground
You hear a sign creak long enough
A feelin' comes around

What is it comes in the night
Pray my soul to keep
A voice of rusted iron
That will not let me sleep
Once we stood the crossroads down
The devil went his way
There's a toll bridge on the highway now
All who pass must pay

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