Just Off Route 9 (Remix Seven-Eleven Halo)

[Verse 1] She worked the graveyard at the Chevron off Route 9 Coffee burnt black beneath the buzzing neon sign Said she used to dream in colors nobody could name Now every night's another customer, another face the same Outside the trucks rolled by like thunder through the rain Inside her head she heard a voice call out her name Like she'd been here before Like she'd lived this road twice Like somewhere deep inside herself There burned another life [Pre-Chorus] She said I swear I knew this town before I was born Like some old river keeps rolling on and on And I been chasing something I can't see But it keeps on chasing me [Chorus] Same river different name Same soul different pain You can change your clothes You can change your town But you can't outrun what's buried down Can't run Can't run Can't run from within The light don't leave you, darling Sometimes it just grows dim [Verse 2] Her daddy talked in circles about the government Said they break a person's spirit just to make them fit Fractals on the television Static in the hall Everybody looking upward Nobody knows what for She laughed and spun a quarter on the counter top Said every life she's lived just somehow never stops Maybe we come back around Till we finally learn Why every bridge we ever loved Still waits for us to burn [Chorus] Same river different name Same soul different pain Every roadside revelation Ends the way it came Can't run Can't run Can't run from within The light was always with you You just forgot again [Bridge] Late December cold came drifting through the pines She stood beneath the power lines and watched the headlights shine For a second all the noise went silent in her mind Like heaven wasn't somewhere else But something trapped inside [Outro] Not the body Not the scars Not the empty little bars Not the graveyard shift Not the town Not the years that wore you down Just the light Just the light Still burning somewhere deep inside