Gold on the Dashboard (Version 3)

Verse

Rust on the hood, engine still warm

Bare feet up, counting every storm

Headlights cut through what's left of the night

You laugh so loud it knocks the stars loose tonight

Old cassette tape, static and gold

We don't know where this summer's gonna go

But we're chasing the tail end of dawn

Every mile marker feels like it's ours alone

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel that engine humming through my chest?

Is this how every ending turns into a nest?

Something old, something new, something gold in between

Chorus

Gold on the dashboard, drifting slow

You and I, we don't know where we're going but we need to go

Let it shake us loose like it's always meant to be

Every goodbye ends up breaking wide for me

Wide open roads, no map left behind

We'll figure out how to find our own line

Verse

Bare feet up on the dashboard seam

Radio static, a melody we can't name

You're singing every word I've forgotten about myself

Streetlights blur into one long stream

The speedometer climbs and the whole sky opens up

Nothing's breaking that feels like enough

This is how good the goodbye has to feel to be true

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel that engine humming through my chest?

Is this how every ending turns into a nest?

Something old, something new, something gold in between

Chorus

Gold on the dashboard, drifting slow

You and I, we don't know where we're going but we need to go

Let it shake us loose like it's always meant to be

Every goodbye ends up breaking wide for me

Wide open roads, no map left behind

We'll figure out how to find our own line

Bridge

Maybe the only way something gets built is if it's broken first

Every crack's got a spark in its chest

So we'll drive until there's nothing left of this road

And every ending turns into gold

Chorus

Gold on the dashboard, drifting slow

You and I, we don't know where we're going but we need to go

Let it shake us loose like it's always meant to be

Every goodbye ends up breaking wide for me

Wide open roads, no map left behind

We'll figure out how to find our own line