Lyrics

While the city’s still sleeping and the coffee’s barely hot
There’s a driver checking tires in a dark and lonely lot
The bakery needs flour, the hospital needs supplies
And somewhere down the highway another sunrise starts to rise

Most folks never see us
They don’t know where we’ve been
They just know what they needed
Was waiting there for them

America runs because we show up
Before the morning sun comes up
Through the snow and through the rain
Through the traffic and the pain

Every shelf, every store
Every package at your door
Every town from sea to sea
Got there on the backs of people just like me
America runs because we show up

We’ve missed birthdays and ballgames
We’ve spent holidays alone
We’ve watched fireworks from truck stops
A thousand miles from home
But when the country needs us
The answer’s always clear
Turn the key and roll on out
Because the load’s got to get there