i heard they cleaned the wreck outside o slidell just before the dawn i heard five people got murdered by a drunk woman talkin on her cell phone i got drunk last night in slidell waitin on the clean up crew i ve been on the road for fifteen days waitin just to get home to you just before the dawn you hear the rooster crow just before the dawn i m gonna rise up rise up slow nighttime driving is like a dream hallucinations rise up from the road it s lonesome at 5 am and the white line becomes your soul just as the sun begin to rise the highway gets foggy as hell and all the musicians are sleepin you ain t got nothin but yourself just before the dawn you hear the rooster crow just before the dawn i m gonna rise up rise up slow i heard they cleaned up the wreck outside o slidell just before i passed through i ve been sittin for five hours on this barstool waitin and thinkin bout you