We Were Never Built to Last

Intro

Sodium lights on the overpass hum

Seventeen and already outrun

Diner clock frozen stuck on nine

Two coffees cold, your hand in mine

Verse

They said we'd fold before July

Said kids like us don't learn to fly

But we found sparks in a busted radio

Static prayers on the county road

Your daddy's truck with the check light on

Half a tank and we're already gone

Cornfields blur into amber streaks

Windows down, we don't need to speak

They drew the lines, said stay inside them

Painted futures, told us to abide them

But we crossed out every dotted street

Danced on hoods in the summer heat

Called us reckless, called us wrong

Called us nothing, we call it home

Every warning sign we've ever passed

Just proves we're built for the crash

Hook

We were never built to last

So we're burning twice as fast

Paper wings and gasoline

Chase the brightest thing we've seen

Let them bet against the odds

We'll be gone before the frost

Hold on tight, don't look back

We were never built to last

Verse

Small town funeral for our names

Whispered in the same old frames

But we kept driving past the sign

That says this road's the end of the line

Bonfire sparks like fallen stars

Kissing scars from borrowed cars

Every curfew that we broke

Every promise up in smoke

We're the echo they can't erase

Wildflowers in a paved-over place

They poured concrete, we grew through cracks

Every setback, we send it back

Called us shadows, called us thin

But shadows stretch when the light comes in

Every doubt they've ever cast

Just proves we're built for the crash

Hook

We were never built to last

So we're burning twice as fast

Paper wings and gasoline

Chase the brightest thing we've seen

Let them bet against the odds

We'll be gone before the frost

Hold on tight, don't look back

We were never built to last

Bridge

Maybe we won't make it to thirty

Maybe our luck's already dirty

But I'd rather burn out bright and true

Than fade out slow in a waiting room

So kiss me quick under dying stars

Let the whole world see who we are

We're not scared of running out of time

We're only scared of never trying

Hook

We were never built to last

So we're burning twice as fast

Paper wings and gasoline

Chase the brightest thing we've seen

Let them bet against the odds

We'll be gone before the frost

Hold on tight, don't look back

We were never built to last

Never built, never built to last

Outro

So light the fuse, hold my hand

We were never part of the plan

Sodium lights fading to gold

We were never built to last

But god, we were built to hold on