Static in the Rearview

Verse

Screen door slaps like a shot in the dark

Sneakers slung over the busted-up guitar

Porch light flickers on a town gone still

Engine coughing awake on Vinegar Hill

Twenty bucks and a half a tank of gas

Every window I pass is a picture of the past

I don't need a reason, I don't need a map

Just the white line pulling like a rubber band snapped back

Chorus

I'm gone before the sun can catch me leaving

Static in the rearview, nothing worth believing

Kick the dust up, let the taillights burn

This is the only road I've ever learned

Static in the rearview, watch it disappear

I'm not slowing down for anyone still standing here

Verse

Diner sign buzzing like a hornet's nest

Waitress asks where I'm headed, I say anywhere but west

Left my key under the mat for the ghost of who I was

Traded all my Sundays for the hum of engine dust

Radio's cutting between static and a song

I turn it up louder so I don't sing along

Every mile behind me is a name I used to wear

Nothing in the mirror but a highway and hot air

Chorus

I'm gone before the sun can catch me leaving

Static in the rearview, nothing worth believing

Kick the dust up, let the taillights burn

This is the only road I've ever learned

Static in the rearview, watch it disappear

I'm not slowing down for anyone still standing here

Bridge

Maybe I'm not running, maybe I'm just moving fast

Toward some kind of morning that's gonna finally last

No more counting exits, no more counting cost

I found the only freedom in the miles I lost

Chorus

I'm gone before the sun can catch me leaving

Static in the rearview, nothing worth believing

Kick the dust up, let the taillights burn

This is the only road I've ever learned

Static in the rearview, watch it disappear

Static in the rearview, so long, so clear

I'm not slowing down, I'm not slowing down

Not for anyone still standing in this town