Last night I was out driving
Coming home at the end of the working day
I was riding alone through the drizzling rain

On a deserted stretch of a county two-lane
When I came upon a wreck on the highway


There was blood and glass all over
And there was nobody there but me
As the rain tumbled down hard and cold

I seen a young man lying by the side of the road
He cried Mister, won't you help me please


An ambulance finally came and took him to Riverside
I watched as they drove him away
And I thought of a girlfriend or a young wife

And a state trooper knocking in the middle of the night
To say your baby died in a wreck on the highway


Sometimes I sit up in the darkness
And I watch my baby as she sleeps
Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight

I just lay there awake in the middle of the night
Thinking 'bout the wreck on the highway