Washing out the amber days (version 3)

Verse

Six a.m., the streetlight's dying fast

Peach tree leaves are turning into grass

Your jacket left behind on the fence wire

Still smells like smoke and the summer fire

Sneakers by the screen door, toes in the dirt

Radio static where your voice used to be first

I'm driving out where the county roads get thin

Trying to find you before we lose it again

Pre-Chorus

Tell me what we're leaving behind

Every mile feels like a goodbye this time

Is this the ending or just a fade

Or are we only changing our way

Chorus

Washing out the amber days in my rearview

Gold on the windshield turning into blue.

We don't know where we end and we begin again

So I'm letting go like autumn, drifting thin to thin

Verse 2

Your old baseball cap was still at the truck stop diner

Coffee cup cold by eight o'clock in the morning

You left a letter folded up on the dashboard tray

Said it's not over yet, just different.

I don't need your name, I got every little thing

Every laugh we stole from a parking lot light string

Pre-Chorus

Tell me what we're leaving behind

Every mile feels like a goodbye this time

Is this the ending or just a fade

Or are we only changing our way

Chorus

Washing out the amber days in my rearview

Gold on the windshield turning into blue.

We don't know where we end and we begin again

So I'm letting go like autumn, drifting thin to thin

Bridge

Maybe the ending's just a door with no handle

Maybe this is just how young love works its way

I still feel your heartbeat in every yellow mile

And for tonight that's enough, it's all I need right now

Chorus

Washing out the amber days in my rearview

Gold on the windshield turning into blue.

We don't know where we end and we begin again

So I'm letting go like autumn, drifting thin to thin