The car crash song emerged as a popular pop and rock music teenage tragedy song during the 1950s and 1960s at a time when the number of people being killed in vehicle collisions was rising rapidly in many countries. In the United Kingdom, the number of fatalities on UK roads rose to a peace-time peak of 7,985 in 1966 before then falling to a new low of 2,222 in 2009.[1] The theme also covers motorcycle crashes and appears in country and other music styles.[2]
| Title | Artist | Year | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "30,000 Pounds of Bananas" | 1974 | From the album Verities & Balderdash. About the crash of a truck driver bringing a load of bananas into Scranton, Pennsylvania, based on a real truck crash. | ||
| "The 30th" | 2022 | From the EP Guitar Songs. About a real-life crash involving a close friend of Eilish's. | ||
| "7–11" | 1981 | From their album Pleasant Dreams. The arrangement of this song suggests a strong 1950s/early 1960s teenage pop influence with a doo-wop chorus. | ||
| "Airbag" | 1997 | According to the lyrics, "an airbag saved my life."[3] | ||
| "Always Crashing in the Same Car" | 1977 | From the album Low | ||
| "Angels in Top Hats" | 2005 | Talks about a girl lying in the hospital, and the song later reveals that she was in a car and it had been raining when the crash happened. From House of Heroes | ||
| "A Sight for Sore Eyes" | 1977 | Mentions that a fellow named Nash was killed in a crash. The story is told about how he spun out, hit a telephone pole and died with the radio on. From Foreign Affairs | ||
| "A Young Man Is Gone" | 1963 | A eulogy to James Dean | ||
| "The Approaching Curve" | 2006 | "Up ahead there was a curve approaching. She made no indications of slowing."From The Sufferer & the Witness | ||
| "Arthur" | 1984 | "A black gelato van, finished for the day, met with Arthur's taxi head-on, down St. Kilda way" | ||
| "The Artist in the Ambulance" | 2003 | "Late night, brakes lock, hear the tires squeal. Red light can't stop so I spin the wheel."From The Artist in the Ambulance | ||
| "Bat Out of Hell" | 1977 | From Bat Out of Hell, protagonist's motorcycle crashes at a curve in the road. | ||
| "The Beginning of My End" | 1968 | |||
| "The Ballad of Thunder Road" | 1957 | Moonshine runner dies when his car speeds off the road | ||
| "Big League" | 1988 | "Hit a truck doing 70 in the wrong lane in the big league". | ||
| "B.J. the D.J." | 1964 | Title protagonist – a hard-living, sleep-deprived disc jockey – dies when his car crashes off the road. | ||
| "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" | 1955 | A motorcyclist vanishes after getting hit by a train. | ||
| "Black Ice" | 2011 | From their album Fiasco. Lyrics speak of a fight between a husband and wife, then the wife dies in a car crash. Contains "Black ice took her away from me", speaks directly of a car crash. | ||
| "Brought Up That Way" | 2009 | Recorded for Fearless but formally unreleased. A song about the relationship between a girl and her father ends with the man receiving a phone call from a police officer stating, "Sir, there's been an accident [...] A drunken driver missed an overpass, and Emily, she's fading fast." | ||
| "Buses and Trains" | 1998 | Lyrics compare love to traffic collisions with several vehicles, one of them is the car. | ||
| "(Northbound on) Cahuenga" | 2005 | From So Long, Scarecrow, about Jennifer Symes' car crash | ||
| "Car Crash" | 1977 | [4] | ||
| "Car Crash" | 2004 | Making the comparison that love is like a car crash. "You leave me bloody and take all my money like a car crash". This song was featured on the soundtrack of the popular racing video game Gran Turismo 4. | ||
| "Car Crash" | 1997 | About a friend who intentionally killed himself in a car crash. | ||
| "Car Crash" | 1995 | |||
| "The Carroll County Accident" | 1968 | A deadly car crash reveals a secret extramarital affair in the form of a lost wedding ring | ||
| "Chapel Bells Ringing" | Gene Summers (written by Mary Tarver) | 1962 | 45rpm issued on Lafayette Records. Based upon a true story about a fatal car/train crash in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. | |
| "Chemistry of a Car Crash" | 2005 | |||
| "Chicken" | 1957 | |||
| "Come Back Jonee" | 1978 | The lyric "Jonee jumped in his Datsun, drove onto the expressway, went head on into a semi." | ||
| "Condition Red" | 1968 | Motorcycle crash under circumstances similar to "Leader of the Pack" | ||
| "The Country & Western Supersong" | 1979 | A bus crash, ambulance and car crash | ||
| "Crash" | 1988 | Allegory about living too fast: "You go way too fast, if you don't slow down, you're going to crash." | ||
| "Crash" | 2022 | Title track off the album Crash. Protagonist sings about crashing into the water and taking you with her. | ||
| "Crash & Burn" | 2019 | From their album Call My Name. | ||
| "Crash My Car" | 2019 | One of the first singles released for their 2020 album, Dreamland. | ||
| "Crawling from the Wreckage" | ---- | Also a hit for Dave Edmunds (1977). | ||
| "Crazy Cat Corner" | Gene Summers (written by Deanna Summers-Gene Summers) | 2004 | From Do Right Daddy CD (Enviken) | |
| "Daddy's Speeding" | 1994 | A eulogy to James Dean and about the relevance of car crashes in modern culture | ||
| "The Day I Died" | 2009 | |||
| 1967 | John Lennon sings about a man who "blew his mind out in a car" crash, presumably Guinness heir Tara Browne, who died in a 1966 automobile crash. | |||
| - | "Days of Graduation" | 2001 | A first person narrative about a fatal car crash the night before the victims' high school graduation. | |
| "Deacon Blues" | 1977 | "Drink scotch whisky all night long and die behind the wheel" | ||
| "Dead on the Highway" | 1995 | First person narrative from the person killed in a car crash. | ||
| "Dead Man's Curve" | 1964 | Auto street racing collision | ||
| "Dead Joe" | 1982 | |||
| "Dead in a Ditch" | 1988 | Story of a girl who steals her parents' car and pills and drives of a cliff | ||
| 1967 | Parody in which a girl called Cutie dies during a taxi ride when the driver becomes distracted by her beauty. | |||
| "Detroit Rock City" | 1976 | Written in tribute to a fan who was killed in a car crash on his way to a KISS concert. | ||
| "Dezesseis" | 1996 | Story of a teenager street racer who died on a car crash, possibly from suicide. | ||
| "Don't Pass Me By" | 1968 | The song is addressed to someone who was "in a car crash" and "lost [her] hair"; i.e., became anxious or upset. | ||
| "Don't Save Us from the Flames" | 2005 | About a survivor of a car crash hearing ghosts crying for Tina (presumably killed in the crash). | ||
| "Dreaming While You Sleep" | 1991 | From We Can't Dance. Written in the first person about a hit and run driver who is haunted by the events that took place. | ||
| "Drinking and Driving" | 1985 | From In My Head. "Fill your car with your buddies. And wrap it around a tree." | ||
| "Ed" | 1991 | "One night he got drunk and started driving real fast / Ed's dead" | ||
| "En händig man" | 2007 | "Hanna" in the song always crashed in the same car. | ||
| "The End of the Tour" | 1994 | Car crash | ||
| "Erfurt & Gera" | 1991 | From the album "Street"; the second verse details the car-related death of someone named "Christian" | ||
| "Everything You Know is Wrong" | 1996 | Protagonist crashes into a truck and lies bleeding on the asphalt when his hibachi dealer in the back seat cups his hands over the protagonist's eyes. | ||
| "Fireball Rolled a Seven" | 1975 | Protagonist ("Fireball") dies in a racing collision | ||
| "Flowers" | 2006 | The singer sings at the grave of his wife whom he killed in a drunk driving crash. | ||
| "For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is)" | 2001 | From the album Musicforthemorningafter | ||
| "Fulton Street I" | 2019 | From Panorama. "And I saw fenders bent hard on an oak tree." | ||
| "Glass in the Trees" | 2004 | About a friend who died in a car crash. | ||
| "Glitter Years" | 1988 | "Denny" in the song crashes his father's car | ||
| "G. M. Vincent and I" | 2010 | Tells the story of the van crash vocalist Andrew Neufeld and long-time friends/labelmates Grave Maker suffered[5] | ||
| 1983 | From their EP Zu schön, um wahr zu sein! | |||
| "Gravity's Union" | 2013 | "And I was wrong to let you go / I accept my mistake, but you will never know / This is my love into a ten-ton truck / Baby, please remember the better me" | ||
| "Halfsleeper" | 2010 | "when we're spinning out on dark and metal wind / when we're flying like blue Mary's angels through the shattered glass [...] we'll be twisting here for hours til the light will give us day / and we're spread across the open road" | ||
| "Headlights on Dark Roads" | 2006 | |||
| "Heat Seeker" | 2020 | "Internet killed the video star/Taking selfies while she crashed in her new car" | ||
| 2005 | Culminates in a suicide pact between the narrator and subject. "We'll pretend to leave and then / We'll meet again when both our cars collide" | |||
| "Hello, This is Joannie" | 1977 | |||
| "Here Comes Bob" | 1972 | Humorous tale of a wealthy eccentric who deliberately causes minor fender-benders as a way of meeting women | ||
| "Holy Cross" | 2001 | Narrative of a truck driver who dies during a night run | ||
| "Hospital Flowers" | 2011 | Reflecting on a victim's life after a car crash | ||
| "How I Left the Ministry" | 2010 | |||
| "I Came Here to Live" | 2006 | A man telling a story about his life shares how his car flipped doing 80 and his experience with God that changed his purpose of life. | ||
| "I Can Feel A Hot One" | 2009 | A man is reflecting back on the night that he lost his pregnant wife in a car crash. | ||
| "I Hope They Get to Me in Time" | 2008 | A man reflects on his life as he lays injured from a car crash, hoping the ambulance arrives in time to save him | ||
| "I Hope You Die" | 2000 | The singer lovingly describes a grotesque car wreck he hopes the listener gets into. | ||
| "I Love It" | 2012 | Protagonist crashes her car into a bridge in a fit of rage. | ||
| "Impact Is Imminent" | 1990 | The song describes the reckless danger of driving drunk. "The daily obituaries reveal/More and more fools climbed behind the wheel/Thinking they were sober enough to drive/They didn't know they'd never come back alive" | ||
| "I Want My Baby Back" | 1965 | A parody of the car crash tragedy genre in which the driver of the crash reunites with his dead girlfriend – in her coffin (which he digs up!) | ||
| "In morte di S.F." | 1967 | From the album Folk beat n. 1 – often covered; best known cover is by Italian seminal pop-rock group Nomadi | ||
| "In the Car Crash" | 2002 | From the album Dirty Dancing featuring Headgear | ||
| "In the Curve" | 2007 | A bonus track off of the album Emotionalism. It describes a drunk driver crashing into a tree and being saved by his faith. | ||
| "It's Dangerous Business Walking out Your Front Door" | 2004 | "Glass shatters and comes to a halt; I thought we'd be there by now. I thought it would be so much quicker than this. Pain has never been so brilliant; I made sure you were buckled in. Now you can walk hand in hand with him." From They're Only Chasing Safety | ||
| "J.A.R." | 1995 | Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt wrote this song in memory of his lifelong friend, Jason Relva, who died in 1992 as the result of injuries sustained from a car crash. "My friend drove off the other day/Now he's gone and all they say/Is you've gotta live 'cause life goes on" | ||
| "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" | 1995 | "Jerry was a race car driver/22 years old/Had one too many cold beers one night/And wrapped himself around a telephone pole" | ||
| "Jock-O-Rama (Invasion of the Beef Patrol)" | 1985 | Contains the line: Another Trans-Am wrapped itself around a telephone pole "I ain't drunk, officer, I just fell gettin' out of my car" | ||
| "In the Kingdom #19" | 1986 | Death on the highway | ||
| "I'm Cold" | 1995 | "I'm breathing a broken windscreen" | ||
| "Johnny Don't Do It" | 1973 | A parody of the teenage "death disc" genre using the familiar trope of a bad boy who is good but misunderstood, "an angel dressed in black," riding a stolen motorcycle when he runs into a truck. | ||
| "Johnny's Gone" | 1991 | 2 wheels on the highway / 4 wheels flashing blue / 10 wheels coming the other way / Gonna make the morning news | ||
| "Just a Car Crash Away" | 2007 | Manson singing about a relationship and lives that are "Just a Car Crash Away" | ||
| 1979 | "Hotwired a city truck and turned it over in the mayor's yard." | |||
| "Junkyard in the Sky" | 1963 | |||
| "Kärleken är" | 1998 | Inspired by the aftermath of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in a car crash in France in 1997.[6] | ||
| "Killer Cars" | 1995 | B-side from the album The Bends. | ||
| "Kiss Them for Me" | 1991 | From the album Superstition. Inspired by the death of Jayne Mansfield in a car crash in 1967. | ||
| "Last Kiss" | 1964 | Falsely inspired by a December 1962 incident in Barnesville, Georgia, in which several teens were killed and two seriously injured when their car struck a flatbed logging truck. Song was actually written in 1961. | ||
| "Leader of the Pack" | 1964 | Motorcycle crash.[7] | ||
| "Leeds Road 3 am" | 2000 | From the album Eight, the song describes a series of scenes which culminate in a car crash.[8] | ||
| "A Lifetime" | 2001, 2005 | Featured on the albums Closer and Before the Robots. The urn of a car crash victim is stolen at her wake for a private farewell. | ||
| "Lightning Crashes" | 1995 | Song based on a real-life drunk driving crash and the impact of a subsequent organ donation. | ||
| "Lights on the Hill" | 1973 | The song describes a trucker driving at night with a heavy load being blinded by lights on the hill, hitting a pole, falling of the edge of a road and realising his impending death. | ||
| "Limousine" | 2005 | Young flower girl at wedding is killed by drunk driver | ||
| "The Living End" | 1985 | From the album "Psychocandy". | ||
| "Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck" | 2004 | A song about a boy who left his girlfriend for a "better looking brand" and when he is horribly hurt in an crash no one visits. | ||
| "Low Light" | 1998 | A song about a troubled couple losing each other in a car crash and not being able to reconcile. | ||
| "Lucky" | 1997 | "Pull me out of the aircrash". | ||
| "Mario Milano's Monaro" | 2015 | "Just the other night / Some old guy ran a red light /T-boned me, South Dowling St." | ||
| "MIA" | 2006 | About listening to singer MIA in a car when her love dies in a car crash. | ||
| "Mistral" | 2015 | From the album What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World. "So we already wrecked the rental car" | ||
| "Message from James Dean" | 1956 | |||
| "Mink Car" | 2001 | About the narrator getting "hit by a mink car driven by a guitar". | ||
| "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" | 1993 | A car crash turned a kid's hair "from black into bright white" because "the cars had smashed so hard." | ||
| "Motorcrash" | 1988 | From the album Life's Too Good | ||
| "Motorist" | 1994 | |||
| "Mr. Ambulance Driver" | 2006 | From the album At War With the Mystics. Frontman Wayne Coyne has described the song as a "teenager car crash ballad". | ||
| "My Favourite Game" | 1998 | The reason MTV UK rejected the video was because of fears that the video could encourage joyriding and cause car crashes amongst teenage drivers. | ||
| "New Moon" | 1994 | The subject experiences Death drive in two senses of the word, choosing to experience an intense and unique ending to her finite human life. | ||
| "A Nightmare to Remember" | 2009 | From the album Black Clouds & Silver Linings. Guitarist John Petrucci wrote about a car crash he was in as a child. | ||
| "No Reason" | 2006 | "the towies said he was airborne when he hit the tree / with a blood alcohol of 1.7 or more" | ||
| "No Return" | 1966 | |||
| "Normandy" | 2007 | |||
| "Oerend Hard" | 1977 | Motorcycle crash | ||
| "On The Road To Calvary (for Jeff Buckley)" | 1999 | "I heard a car crash, it reminded me of you" from the album Beautiful Wreck of the World | ||
| "The Other Side of the Crash/Over and Out (of Control)" | 2006 | The aftermath of a car crash on its survivors is chronicled. A sequel to "Understanding in a Car Crash" (see below) | ||
| "Out of the Woods" | 2014 | "Remember when we hit the brakes too soon?/Twenty stitches in a hospital room" | ||
| "Papa Loved Mama" | 1992 | A jealous truck driver crashes his rig into a motel room where his wife is having an extramarital affair, killing her and sending himself to prison. | ||
| "Phantom 309" | 1964 | The song's protagonist, a hitchhiker, meets the ghost of a truck driver who was killed when he swerved his semi-trailer truck into a ditch to avert a potentially deadly collision with a bus full of teenagers. | ||
| "Plastic Flowers on the Highway" | 2001 | |||
| "Push Back The Hands" | 2018 | |||
| "Racing Car" | 1976 | Ned. No. 7 Racing car driver boyfriend is involved in a crash. | ||
| "The Reason" | 2004 | From the album The Reason | ||
| "Red" | 1987 | |||
| "Renaissance" | 2006 | |||
| "Ricky's Hand" | 1980 | A man drinks six pints of beer, drives, crashes his car, and loses his hand. | ||
| "Riding with Private Malone" | 2001 | The singer is pulled from a fiery car crash by the ghost of the car's former owner, a soldier who died in the Vietnam War. | ||
| "The Right Profile" | 1979 | Based on the 1956 car crash in which Hollywood star Montgomery Clift was severely injured. | ||
| "Rocky's Girl" | 1978 | |||
| "Se le apagó la luz" | 1991 | Lyrics in Spanish describe a girl dying ("her light went off") after being rushed to the hospital because her boyfriend (the singer) drove too fast and crashed his car. | ||
| "Seventy Times 7" | 2001 | Sample lyrics: "Have another drink and drive yourself home" "I hope there's ice on all the roads" "And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt" "Then again when your head goes through the windshield" | ||
| "Shark Smile" | 2017 | The song describes her girlfriend's last journey whilst driving together in their yellow van. As the driver is momentarily distracted, she collides with the guard rail and dies. | ||
| "Shredded Humans" | 1990 | From the album Eaten Back to Life. The lyrics of the song describe what happens to a family inside a car that crashes, and the reaction of the other driver. | ||
| "Sirens" | 2014 | From the album I Don't Dance. The subject picks up a female hitchhiker who robbed a bank and grabs the steering wheel and causes a crash rather than surrendering to the cops. | ||
| "Sleep Patterns" | 2010 | The fourth song from the album For Cameron is a spoken poem with backing guitar. It tells the story of the narrator dreaming about his death, before meeting the people he sees around him in the dream and eventually dying in the crash he dreamed of. | ||
| "Slick" | 1992 | From the album Copper Blue. The song describes a driver who lost control of a car on a slick road and crashed into a pole. The subject is paralyzed and connected to machines in the hospital. | ||
| "Sloppy Seconds" | 2013 | From the album Cardboard Castles; first verse details a car crash | ||
| "Slow Car Crash" | 2005 | "Your purse hit the wind shield when I locked the brakes. Airbags inflated, seat belts engaged. A semi was jackknifed because of the rain. A hundred yards up blocking three lanes." | ||
| 2001 | The singer is eating in a diner, where outside a car is being pulled up from the bottom of a frozen lake. | |||
| "So Damn Lucky" | 2003 | The 2nd track on Matthews's solo album Some Devil. The subject is pleased that their love is not involved in the auto collision described in the lyrics. | ||
| "So Small" | 2007 | A runaway teen steps in front of an oncoming car, causing the woman driving to swerve into a man coming in the opposite direction – and then time freezes, giving all three a moment to contemplate what brought them there. | ||
| "Someday" | 2003 | From the album The Long Road. The lyrics chronicle a failed relationship. The music video involving a car crash. | ||
| "Spellbound" | 1981 | From the album For Those About to Rock We Salute You. The first verse describes a car crash and the second verse describes the reckless driving that lead to the crash. | ||
| "Stan" | 2000 | The lead character in the song commits suicide by crashing his car, with his pregnant girlfriend in the trunk. | ||
| "Star Witness" | 2006 | "My true love drowned in a dirty old pan of oil that did run from the block of a Falcon sedan 1969. The paper said '75. There were no survivors, none found alive." | ||
| "State Fair" | 1994 | "It happened way out on route twenty nine, Some drunk driver came across the yellow line" | ||
| “Stereotype” | 1980 | “His mum's waiting up, she hopes he's alright, But he's wrapped round a lamp post on Saturday night” | ||
| "Steve Was Dead" | 1997 | Rumors spread among friends that Steve was in a car crash. lyrics and video | ||
| "Story" | 2013 | The song tells the story of a new police officer who reports on a fatal car crash involving a cab. It is revealed in the final line that one of the passengers was his sister, and he was the one who told her to “catch a cab”. | ||
| "Sunday Driving" | 1951 | Jerry crashes his car at the end of the song and says next time he'll take the bus, instead. | ||
| "Surrender The Night" | My Chemical Romance | 2013 | "Through the windshield, sailing / With these airbags failing" | |
| "Suzy & Jeffrey" | 1980 | The titular duo crash into a wall, serving as a metaphor for cold feet. | ||
| "Teddy Bear" | 1976 | The protagonist's father had died in a collision involving his semi-trailer truck during a snowstorm. | ||
| "Teen Angel" | 1959 | Auto stalled on train tracks struck by train, killing protagonist's high school sweetheart. | ||
| "Teen Love" | 1983 | "Her body was found crushed into the dashboard" | ||
| "Teenage Cremation" | 1974 | A parody of teen death songs. "I walk along the nature strip looking for pieces of you" | ||
| "Tell Laura I Love Her" | 1960 | Auto racing collision | ||
| "Terry" | 1964 | Motorcycle crash | ||
| "That's How People Grow Up" | 2009 | "I was driving my car / I crashed and broke my spine" | ||
| "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" | 1986 | from the album The Queen Is Dead | ||
| "Three Wooden Crosses" | 2002 | Christian story song about a bus wreck in Mexico where three people died and maybe why a fourth person, perhaps the least deserving of the group, lived. | ||
| "Through the Wire" | 2003 | Rapper West's first single, inspired by a 2002 crash which he survived, and performed while his jaw was wired shut as a result of his injuries. | ||
| "The Tourist" | 1997 | A song about the moments leading up to and during the crash "Airbag" (another OK Computer track by Radiohead) is based on. | ||
| "Thunderbird" | 1996 | from the album Heartbreak Town | ||
| "A Tombstone Every Mile" | 1965 | A song about a treacherous stretch of Maine highway where truckers often met fatal crashes. | ||
| "Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel" | 2000 | From Maroon. Accompanied by a drum march and calliope, the song is recited by the narrator who has just died in a car crash. | ||
| "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!" | 1976 | Motorcycle crash | ||
| "Transfusion" | 1956 | A crazy driver keeps getting into collisions and receiving blood transfusions – always promising to never speed again. | ||
| "Trashed" | 1983 | From Born Again, about surviving a drunk driving. | ||
| "Truckload of Art" | 2016 | From the album Lubbock On Everything | ||
| "Two Hour Honeymoon" | 1960 | A newlywed couple have a car crash that kills her and leaves him lying in the wreck questioning why it happened. | ||
| "Two Six Packs Away" | 1965 | The singer is serving a ninety-day jail sentence for wrecking his car while drunk. | ||
| "Understanding in a Car Crash" | 2002 | |||
| "Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)" | 2005 | Drunk driving collision | ||
| "Warm Leatherette" | 1979 | Also recorded by Grace Jones (1980). First person narrative of a car crash victim burning to death in the crash. | ||
| "Where Oh Werewolf" | 1998 | Parodying a car crash scene in the 1996 film Werewolf. Performed on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. | ||
| "When I Crash" | Thoushaltnot | 2006 | The moments just before and during a crash, presumably as a result of a lover's argument. | |
| "When I Go Out, I Want to Go Out on a Chariot of Fire" | 2006 | Song about a deadly car crash. | ||
| "The Wild Boar" | 2014 | "Suddenly, a huge shape leapt from the forest on his right / There was barely enough time to react / He hit the brakes hard, but the car collided / with the creature, or whatever it was" | ||
| "Wreck on the Highway" | 1942 | Also recorded by artists including The Louvin Brothers, George Jones and Gene Pitney (1965), The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (in Will the Circle Be Unbroken, 1972) | ||
| "Wreck on the Highway" | 1980 | Hit-and-run victim on lonely highway, inspired by but different from the Acuff song | ||
| "The Year Summer Ended in June" | 2004 | "Roll down the window let in night air. I always thought we'd be together. You said we've never gone this way before. I must not let you die. Your memory survives.”From Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | ||