Slow Burnout (Version 2)

Verse

Screen door slammed at five a.m.

Coffee in my Thermos still warm

Left the headlights on, engine idling slow

Miles to go before I stop this song

Rust on the gate, paint peeling off

Dirt road fading into morning glow

Radio static, one sad refrain

Still got my windows down and I don't wanna close

Pre-Chorus

I know it's over, I know you're gone

But the radio still holds that voice on

Maybe slow burnout is just how we grow

Letting go of everything I used to own

Chorus

So let me drive this slow burnout down

Ash in my hair and dust on my crown

Every mile a little further from home

Slow burnout, baby, taking me back where I'm from

Verse

Gas light blinking low like a heartbeat still

Old cassette tape stuck between us all

Faded photo of what we used to be

Roadside diner neon flickering slow and small

Diner waitress pouring coffee from a pot

Talking sports with strangers on the stool below

Nobody's asking where I've been or why

Just the hum of engines passing time

Pre-Chorus

I know it's over, I know you're gone

But the radio still holds that voice on

Maybe slow burnout is just how we grow

Letting go of everything I used to own

Chorus

So let me drive this slow burnout down

Ash in my hair and dust on my crown

Every mile a little further from home

Slow burnout, baby, taking me back where I'm from

Bridge

Maybe heartbreak's just the engine's low hum

Maybe love is just a memory in blue

I'm not chasing you, I'm chasing this empty room

This rusted old truck and nothing left to prove

Chorus

So let me drive this slow burnout down

Ash in my hair and dust on my crown

Every mile a little further from home

Slow burnout, baby, taking me back where I'm from