[Intro] (reverb guitar + distant highway noise) I keep checking the rear view mirror I keep checking the rear view mirror Like something's still following me [Verse 1] The highway cuts through empty farmland Black fields beneath a silver moon The radio keeps losing signal And finding it again too soon There are names scratched into old notebooks That I haven't said in years But somehow every passing mile Makes them louder in my ears Every exit sign reminds me Of somebody I used to know Every town holds a different version Of a life I didn't choose And all those conversations Left unfinished in the dark Still echo through the dashboard lights Like sparks that missed their mark [Pre-Chorus] Maybe nothing really leaves us Maybe nothing really leaves us Maybe it just changes shape [Chorus] Ghosts in the rear view (x2) Following behind tonight Every memory catching light Like reflections in the glass Ghosts in the rear view (x2) Trying to keep up with us But the road keeps pulling forward And the past can never last Oh-oh-oh (x2) Ghosts in the rear view [Verse 2] I remember parking lots in summer And cheap speakers playing songs too loud The faces blur around the edges now But I can still hear every sound I remember promises we made At two in the morning in the rain Swearing we'd stay exactly who we were Like people never change The streetlights looked enormous then The future felt impossibly far Now those some roads seem smaller Than they ever really are And everybody found directions Nobody expected back then Some because strangers overnight Some because stories instead [Pre-Chorus] The dashboard glows electric blue The dashboard glows electric blue As another state line disappears [Chorus] Ghosts in the rear view (x2) Following behind tonight Every memory catching light Like reflections in the glass Ghosts in the rear view (x2) Following behind tonight Every memory catching light Like reflections in the glass Ghosts in the rear view (x2) Trying to keep up with us But the road keeps pulling forward And the past can never last Oh-oh-oh (x2) Ghosts in the rear view [Bridge] (big guitars and crashing drums) Maybe growing up is learning How to carry what you've lost Without letting it define you Without counting every cost Maybe nostalgia's just a photograph Taken from the wrong angle A beautiful distortion Of moments too tangled And maybe those old versions of ourselves Still ride somewhere beside us Not haunting us anymore Just reminding us [Instrumental Break] (fuzzy guitar solo) Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh The headlights stretch across the road Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Some things stay even when they go [Verse 3] The sky begins to lighten slowly At the edge of the horizon line The stars fade one by one Like memories running out of time I stop checking the mirror For the first time all night long And focus on the road ahead And the place we're driving toward The fields became morning colors The darkness starts to break And all the ghosts behind me Feel a little less awake [Final Chorus] Ghosts in the rear view (x2) Following behind tonight Every memory catching light Like reflections in the glass Ghosts in the rear view (x2) Trying to keep up with us But the road keeps pulling forward And the past can never last Ghosts in the rear view (x2) The sunrise paints the highway gold And every story that we hold Becomes part of who we are Oh-oh-oh (x2) Ghosts in the rear view [Outro] (soft guitar + fading road noise I keep checking the rear view mirror But there's nothing there now Just miles of empty highway And the morning sky.
