Light at the Exit (Version 2)

Verse

Mm... four in the morning, rain on the highway line

Radio static where your voice used to shine

Every station fades before it starts

Still I turn up loud and let my heart start

Fourteen years of running through these streets

Counting every mile since the day you left

Signs say 'welcome home', but nobody's mine

Just a ghost in traffic, half a silhouette

Pre-Chorus

So what do I say to this empty road

How do I call myself back home?

I built a map out of everything we broke

Now I'm driving through the dark alone

Chorus

Lights keep coming up behind me

Like they're trying to catch up with me

Sirens fade into a hum

Every door that shut behind me

Lights at the exit, pull me through

Something in my chest is true

Verse 2

Five years older, windshield cracked and worn

Told myself this summer I would finally mourn

Wrote your name in snowflakes on the back of trucks

Never sent it, never looked that hard

Every friend since then has built a life

Got their own maps, got their own light

I'm still tracing yours with headlights and gravel

Learning how to say 'okay' instead of 'gavel

Pre-Chorus

So what do I say to this empty road

How do I call myself back home?

I built a map out of everything we broke

Now I'm driving through the dark alone

Chorus

Lights keep coming up behind me

Like they're trying to catch up with me

Sirens fade into a hum

Every door that shut behind me

Lights at the exit, pull me through

Something in my chest is true

Bridge

Maybe grief's not losing someone's name

It's learning how to read a map again

Not every ending closes like a door

Sometimes it opens up into more

Chorus

Lights keep coming up behind me

Like they're trying to catch up with me

Sirens fade into a hum

Every door that shut behind me

Lights at the exit, pull me through

Something in my chest is true