Running on Borrowed Sunshine

Verse

Packed my whole life in a duffel bag tonight

Left the porch light on for the last time

Your name's still carved on the kitchen door

Guess I don't live here anymore

Engine's warm, the driveway's cracked with frost

Counting up the things I think I've lost

Pre-Chorus

But the sky's turning gold past the water tower

Is it grief or is it power

Making my hands shake on the wheel

Chorus

I'm running on borrowed sunshine

Stealing light from a closing door

Got nothing left but a highway

And I've never felt so sure

Say goodbye like a chorus

Sing it loud till it don't hurt

I'm running on borrowed sunshine

Learning what my freedom's worth

Verse

Gas station coffee, black and burnt

Postcard town I never will return

Radio's playing our old summer song

I let it ride, I sing along

Rearview mirror, watch the exit signs

Every mile is a border I'm crossing tonight

Pre-Chorus

And the sky's still gold past the water tower

Isn't grief anymore, it's power

Something steady taking the wheel

Chorus

I'm running on borrowed sunshine

Stealing light from a closing door

Got nothing left but a highway

And I've never felt so sure

Say goodbye like a chorus

Sing it loud till it don't hurt

I'm running on borrowed sunshine

Learning what my freedom's worth

Bridge

Maybe the leaving was the lesson

Maybe the ache was just a start

Turns out the door that broke me open

Let the whole sky into my heart

I don't need the light behind me

I've got my own now, burning true

Chorus

I'm running on borrowed sunshine

No, I don't need it anymore

Got my own now, blazing brighter

Than anything I searched for

Said goodbye like a chorus

Now I'm singing something new

I'm running on my own sunshine

And it's carrying me through