Verse 1 The road stretched out like a scar, Wounded asphalt beneath my wheels. The engine hummed a funeral hymn, For everything I couldn't heal. No destination in my hands, Only headlights cutting through the dark. The city melted into ghosts, Every street another mark. Pre-Chorus The radio stayed silent. Songs were never made for nights like these. Some wounds don't need a soundtrack. Only empty roads and broken dreams. Chorus I drove until the morning forgot my name. Running from a fire I couldn't outrun. Love wasn't dying all at once. It disappeared one day at a time. I thought staying meant forever. I thought breaking slow would hurt less somehow. Now every mile whispers the same thing. You should've left by now. Verse 2 Blood dried beneath a battered eye. A souvenir I never earned. Life writes the cruelest poetry. While every bridge behind me burns. I passed the place we stopped that night. Bought your cigarettes and held you close. You cried, then smiled through shattered breath. Now you're only one more ghost. Bridge My phone kept calling out your name. I let the silence answer back. Pulled behind a dying diner. Couldn't find the road I lacked. I searched for something in the dark. A reason... mercy... one last sign. Only old receipts... a broken pen... And every word I'd left behind. Final Chorus I drove until the sunrise found me. Still carrying what I couldn't save. Some hearts don't shatter in a moment. They weather into empty space. I thought staying meant forever. I finally know what love is not. So I wrote my soul across that paper. Because my body couldn't hold the hurt. Outro The road stretched out like a scar. And somewhere past the breaking point... The words survived. When I almost didn't.
