[Intro] Wait. Don’t turn it off yet. [Verse 1] We’d already said everything That people say When there’s nothing left to fix Your hands stayed on the steering wheel Mine stayed folded in my lap The engine was running Heat too high Neither one of us moved Then the next song started The one we used to play Every drive home Of course it did [Pre-Chorus] You reached for the volume I said “Leave it” So you did [Chorus] One last song in the car Before I open the door Before I become someone You don’t drive home anymore One last song in the car Don’t speak Don’t make it worse Let three minutes and forty seconds Hold what we can’t put into words One last song in the car Then I’ll go [Verse 2] You looked straight ahead Like the windscreen Had suddenly become fascinating I watched your thumb Tap the beat Against the leather Same little movement I’d seen a thousand times It hurt more Than the goodbye Funny what survives The important parts [Pre-Chorus] The chorus came around We both knew every word Neither of us sang That felt correct [Chorus — layered group harmonies] One last song in the car Before I open the door Before I become someone You don’t drive home anymore One last song in the car Don’t speak Don’t make it worse Let three minutes and forty seconds Hold what we can’t put into words One last song in the car Then I’ll go [Bridge — piano/voice] I nearly asked If you remembered the first time We heard it Rain on the motorway Wrong exit You singing terribly Me laughing until I couldn’t breathe But memory Was already doing enough So I kept that one To myself [Build] The final chord came Silence after You turned the key The engine stopped And somehow that was The real ending [Final Chorus — belts and counter-melodies] One last song in the car Now there’s nothing left to play [Low Harmony] Nothing left [Upper Harmony] Stay one second [Lead] I put my hand on the handle You finally looked my way One last song in the car And I wanted to say Something beautiful enough To justify all those years Instead I said— [Soft] Drive safe [Lead sustained belt] Sa-a-a-a-afe— [Layered descending responses] Drive safe Drive safe [Very brief whistle close] [Outro] Door shuts.
