The Hitcher

I was stranded on a west Texas highway
Walking for a mile wit my thumb out pointed in the right lane
3 a.m. see a sucker flash his headlights
Pull up to my side, and he say he going my way
Sitting shotgun shadows mask my face
I slink into the seat as I'm grasping on a shank
We gone be here for a while he got more than half a tank
And he said he had some questions, I tell him ask away
"My name's Jim, what's yours, where you headed?"
It's Ryder, and I'll have to kill you any second
You prolly thinking I'm playin' and it's just to break the tension
But I'm gonna leave your carcass off of highway 10 in sections
There's a car on the shoulder as it's hazards flash
Force his foot down on the gas, laughing as we pass
I just killed that old man left him bloody as a maxi pad
Put the shank against his neck and said

Tell me that you die because I can save your life
I can free your soul with the blade of a knife
Your journey on Earth may end on this road
But you'll be forever known as a ride for the hitcher
Tell me that you die because I can save your life
I can free your soul with the blade of a knife
Your journey on Earth may end on this road
But you'll be forever known as a ride for the hitcher

Jim pushed me out the passenger door
And I rolled through the gravel and glass on the road
Start to hike up the ten at a rest stop alone
Is a brown station wagon and a family of four
A man, his wife, two kids in the back
Smash the drivers side window with a rock when it cracks
Slip my fist through it quick start attacking the dad
Their screams turn to cries plus my cackling laugh
Choked the dad with safety belt
And watched the life leave his eyes with the pain he felt
Now the Momma looking frantic as she fleeing with her infants
Cave her skull in with a wrench in an instant
Blood and brains on the babies from the bludgeoning
They'll never know a long life is a luxury
Tread marks on their bodies as I drive away
Then I remember that I never even made them say

Tell me that you die because I can save your life
I can free your soul with the blade of a knife
Your journey on Earth may end on this road
But you'll be forever known as a ride for the hitcher
Tell me that you die because I can save your life
I can free your soul with the blade of a knife
Your journey on Earth may end on this road
But you'll be forever known as a ride for the hitcher

Pulled in to a truck stop restaurant called the red eye
Saw jim's hatchback tucked between the semis
Sneak by the showers, grab a bag full of clothes
And change out the bloody garments by a dumpster in the cold
Crept through the back door, the line cook is slippin'
Stick him with blade, now he just another victim
Cut out both his eyes and then threw them in a burger
That jim ordered spyin' on him just around the corner
He sees the eyes and he knows that I'm watchin'
Grabs the girl as they run I think it shouldn't be a problem
He makes it to his car but I'm right up on his ass
At 60 miles an hour I ram him from the back
Hydroplaning right before he crashed
His head hits the wheel, and his girl clears the glass
Choking on her blood but she doesn't want to die
Stomp her face with my boot til she's no longer alive
As Jim wakes I'm in the passenger side
I let him know I'm always here along for the ride
Until he tries to stop me, he'll have to watch me kill for years
And every single one I'm gone whisper in their ears

Tell me that you die because I can save your life
I can free your soul with the blade of a knife
Your journey on Earth may end on this road
But you'll be forever known as a ride for the hitcher
Tell me that you die because I can save your life
I can free your soul with the blade of a knife
Your journey on Earth may end on this road
But you'll be forever known as a ride for the hitcher