Song Title: Echoes on the Highway (Opening – Driving Southern Rock Riff, Slide Guitar and Steady Drums) --- Verse 1 Drifter (Lead): Boots in the dust, night on my back, I left that porch and I ain’t goin’ back. Conscience (Response): Why’d you run from the place you belong? Your roots don’t break just ‘cause you’re gone. Drifter: Highway’s callin’, pullin’ me on, Searchin’ for a place where I feel strong. Conscience: You can chase the wind, but it won’t stay— Every mile just takes you away. --- Chorus (Duet) I’ll carve my name in the midnight rain, Carry my sins through the dark and pain. If the world don’t hear, I’ll sing alone, This heart beats loud in the great unknown. Hook (Together): “Echoes on the highway, callin’ out my name…” --- Verse 2 Drifter (Lead): I talk to the night, but it don’t reply, Rain on the glass, ghosts ridin’ by. Conscience (Response): You can’t hide from the sins you made, They ride beside you every mile you take. Drifter: I keep drivin’, tryin’ to be free, But my past keeps whisperin’ back to me. Conscience: Your freedom’s only as real as you stand— You can’t outrun the touch of this land. --- Chorus (Duet) I’ll carve my name in the midnight rain, Carry my sins through the dark and pain. If the world don’t hear, I’ll sing alone, This heart beats loud in the great unknown. Hook (Together): “Echoes on the highway, callin’ out my name…” --- Verse 3 Drifter (Lead): I see the dawn cut through my doubt, The wind and the road gonna shake it out. Conscience (Response): Sunrise don’t wash all your pain away, You gotta face the truth to see the day. Drifter: I’ve been runnin’, but I ain’t afraid, I found my voice in the life I made. Conscience: If you’ve found your song, then sing it loud— Stand tall now, make yourself proud. --- Chorus (Duet) I’ll carve my name in the midnight rain, Carry my sins through the dark and pain. If the world don’t hear, I’ll sing alone, This heart beats loud in the great unknown. Hook (Together, Repeated): “Echoes on the highway, callin’ out my name… Echoes on the highway, callin’ out my name…” --- Outro (Duet) Drifter: I rise again… Conscience: You rise again… Drifter: I rise again… Conscience: On the long highway… (Slide guitar bends into a fading note as the hook line echoes softly: “Echoes on the highway, callin’ out my name…”))
