[Verse 1]
Can't see this winter road
For the fog and snow
Slippin' through Wahnapitae
Headin' east on 17
The chimney stacks a few miles back
All lit up like rocket ships

[Verse 2]
So many words I should have said
Spent all night tryin' to forget the one I did
This road is a thorn, a river of regret
The wind howls like a ghost inside my head
I was so wrong, now there's no retunin'

[Chorus]
Two hundred miles 'til sunrise
Two hundred miles of this ice and snow
My, paint the dawn in Mattawa
I'll greet the dawn in Mattawa

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]
There's a sadness in the morning, comes with the break of day
For the dawn is a thief, that steals your dreams away
I was so wrong, now there's no returnin'
[Chorus]
Two hundred miles 'til sunrise
Two hundred miles of this ice and snow
My, paint the dawn in Mattawa
I'll greet the dawn in Mattawa
I'll greet the dawn in Mattawa