Static in the Headlights

Verse

Gas station coffee, the receipts on the floor

Every exit sign I'm passing says there's nothing left in store

Odometer's rolling past the town where I was made

Got a map with all the good roads burned and rearranged

Pre-Chorus

So what's it gonna take

To shake this off like ash

To watch the mirror shrink

And never look back

Chorus

Static in the headlights, gravel in my teeth

I'm burning down the map of everywhere I used to be

Let the old house smolder, let the porch light drown

I'm not looking back now, I'm just driving out of town

Verse

Left my name on a napkin at a diner in the rain

Traded all my keepsakes for a tank of gas and pain

There's a fire in the rearview where my whole life used to stand

And the smoke spells out a highway I don't fully understand

Pre-Chorus

So what's it gonna take

To shake this off like ash

To watch the mirror shrink

And never look back

Chorus

Static in the headlights, gravel in my teeth

I'm burning down the map of everywhere I used to be

Let the old house smolder, let the porch light drown

I'm not looking back now, I'm just driving out of town

Bridge

Maybe I'm not running, maybe I'm just clearing space

For a version of my own name I haven't learned to say

Every mile's a match strike, every dark's a clean slate

I was born from embers, I was never meant to wait

Chorus

Static in the headlights, gravel in my teeth

I'm burning down the map of everywhere I used to be

Let the old house smolder, let the porch light drown

I'm not looking back now

Static in the headlights, gravel in my teeth

Let the whole thing burn now, let it set me free

Let the old house smolder, let the porch light drown

I'm not looking back now, I'm just driving out of town