[Verse 1]

Leather jacket in the doorway

Grease on your hands

Sun on your face

You built your freedom out of scrap and sparks

Rode it straight out of this place

You weren't prayin' for a lifeline

You burned your map and lit a smoke

Laughin' louder than the thunder

Every mile another joke

[Chorus]

You were the original heroes

Steel hearts

Wide open roads

Chasin' the wind like it owed you

Never asked what you were owed

You took the nowhere and made it a home

On a roar and a ragged halo

You were the original heroes

Yeah

The ones they couldn’t control (hey!)

[Verse 2]

Gas station coffee at midnight

Tales traded over metal cans

Names carved deep in a tabletop

Shook on brotherhood

Not plans

Took every warning like a dare

Turned every border to a line in sand

They call it chaos

You called it breath

You just called it “who I am”

[Chorus]

You were the original heroes

Steel hearts

Wide open roads

Chasin' the wind like it owed you

Never asked what you were owed

You took the nowhere and made it a home

On a roar and a ragged halo

You were the original heroes

Yeah

The ones they couldn’t control

[Bridge]

One by one

Your patches fade

But your stories still ignite

In every kid who dreams in chrome

And vanishes at night (woah)

[Chorus]

You were the original heroes

Steel hearts

Wide open roads

Chasin' the wind like it owed you

Never asked what you were owed

You took the nowhere and made it a home

On a roar and a ragged halo

You were the original heroes

Ride forever in our souls