Speedway At Nazareth - Mark Knopfler

After two thousand came two thousand and one 
To be the new champions we were there for to run 
From springtime in Arizona 'til the fall in Monterey 
And the raceways were the battlefields and we fought 'em all the way 

Was at Phoenix in the morning I had a wake-up call 
She went around without a warning put me in the wall 
I drove Long Beach, California with three cracked vertebrae 
And we went on to Indianapolis, Indiana in May 

Well the Brickyard's there to crucify I went flat through the turns 
I climbed the mountain to qualify went flat through the turn 
But I was down in the might-have-beens and an old pal good as died 
And I sat down in Gasoline Alley and I cried 

Well we were in at the kill again on the Milwaukee Mile 
And in June up in Michigan we were robbed at Belle Isle 
Then it was on the Portland, Oregon for the G.I. Joe 
And I'd blown off almost everyone when my motor let go 

New England, Ontario we died in the dirt 
Those walls from mid-Ohio to Toronto they hurt 
So we came to Road America where we burned up the lake 
But at the speedway at Nazareth I made no mistake