Verse 1 There’s a blueprint for the highway, a map for every town A manual for the engine when the gears start breaking down But there's no compass for life, no guide for the unglued When your staring at them painted lines, in a midnight solitude I'm driving through the shadows where the heavy questions grow Chasing down the answers that the universe don't show. Verse 2 They say the road is straight and narrow, just keep your eyes ahead But I'm tangled in detours, and the dashboard lights are dead Moving forward out of habit, but awake for waking's sake but there's a massive disconnection in the actions that I take it's heavy kind of hollow, a dark and beautiful ache as I'm staring at the headlights, reckoning all the choices that we're forced to make. Chorus The wheels keep on turning but the direction isn't right I’m lost in the middle of a life I designed An illusion of composure while the subconscious starts to weep I'm driving through the midnight, just wading through the deep. Holding onto a steering wheel and drifting lanes in my mind With a map in my hands that I can't seem to find Bridge The speedometer is a jury passing judgment on the dash Counting down the mile markers while the memories start to crash. Am I heading for a summit, or the edge of a ravine? Just trying to find the poetry in the empty space between. But inside this cabin, the silence is a heavy, crushing weight Just a wandering mind in a moving cage, wrestling with fate. Chorus The wheels keep on turning but the direction isn't right I’m lost in the middle of a life I designed An illusion of composure while the subconscious starts to weep I'm driving through the midnight, just wading through the deep. Holding onto a steering wheel and drifting lanes in my mind With a map in my hands that I can't seem to find Outro (The music slows down, stripped back to just a low, resonant acoustic strum and a lonely, repeating bass note) Yeah, just a ghost... Driving in the silence. Drowning in the design. Wishing I could turn it back... But I'm waiting for the sunrise......, to redraw...., the finish line. (Fade out on a single, sustained, echoing guitar note and the faint sound of a highway signal fading away)
