Story Behind The Song

There was always drinking and angry lover...and truckers in the country...nothing else to do.. I wrote this about 10 years before my own brother and his wife were killed in a car crash... so it was kind of a pre-cognition I suppose... unfortunately they w

Song Description

Two teens fight ... they're drunk, get in a wreck and are rescued

Lyrics

Big Trouble Tonight on Highway 54
© Joseph Miller

Well it was just after 2 AM
On a stormy Friday Night
Susy stood her ground said take me home
Ronnie this ain't right
He slammed his firebird into gear
And peeled off down the road
Ronnies drinkin' more than thinkin'
She's scared she told him no

Big Trouble Tonight on Highway 54
Big Trouble Tonight on Highway 54

Well he saw 'em scream around the curve
And shifted his rig to low
His mind raced to a far off place
Many years ago
He held his breath as the Firebird cut in front
Of a semi'truck
Frank could tell someone tonight
Was runnin out of luck

Big Trouble Tonight on Highway 54
Big Trouble Tonight on Highway 54

It was 27 years ago
On a rainy night like this
Frank lost his love in a flaming crash
From a chance he took and missed
He never found another love
Since that fateful night
And he'd waited for a lifetime
Just to try to make things right
on Highway 54
Big Trouble Tonight on Highway 54

Now off in a distance he could see it all unfold
Firebird took the turn too wide and in sparks flew off the road
Flames were lashing left and right as Ronnie and Susie Prayed

Trapped inside that searing steel coffin where they laid
Big Trouble Tonight on Highway 54

Frank was not a big man
But he found the strength that night
To lift 3000 pounds of steel and sit it back upright
He gave 2 kids back their lives but then he lost his own
His big heart finally let him go to where his one true love had gone


Big Trouble Tonight on Highway 54
Big Trouble Tonight on Highway 54
Big Trouble Tonight on Highway 54
Big Trouble Tonight on Highway 54