[singer A] [Intro, highway ambience sidechained to kick, Doppler guitar drift, warm synth pads, female harmony haze] The interstate bleaching sodium-white (Southbound) (Southbound) [Verse 1, train-rhythm groove, aggressive bass motion, detached dry vocal, tremolo guitar bleed] Tires hit the grit Dash lights stutter red White lines cut the dark A ring vibrating in the cupholder Pass the mile marker Don't look at the map Cloud cover swallowing stars Nothing answering back [Build-up, widening shoegaze swell, snare escalation, female harmonies rising] Running on fumes Running on fumes Running on fumes BREAK [chorus, massive diffused shoegaze walls, hard-panned guitars, centered monotone vocal, melodic female stack] SOUTHBOUND ON EMPTY (Long way home) SOUTHBOUND ON EMPTY (Long way home) SOUTHBOUND ON EMPTY Guardrails melting into light Every town erased by speed Driving like the road might finally Burn your name out of me [melodic transition] Southbound Southbound [singer B] [Verse 2, engine-grit distortion, 90s alternative texture, exhausted vocal delivery] Diesel in the lungs Exit signs go past State lines passing numb Moths exploding in the headlights Truck-stop brew burning black Every exit drowned in sodium light Asphalt eats the sound The horizon dead and flat [Bridge, mono collapse, cheap radio-speaker filter, electrical hum rising, female harmony ghosting] (Passing through) (Passing through) The radio is dead I forgot what state I'm in I keep hearing your voice in the crackle Like you never got out of the car Just the road and me Don't turn around [Build-up, full-band pressure rise, widening feedback bloom, female harmony intensification] Running on fumes Running on fumes Running on fumes RUN [Final Chorus, horizon-sized shoegaze bloom, aggressive bass drive, hard melodic release] SOUTHBOUND ON EMPTY (Long way home) SOUTHBOUND ON EMPTY (Long way home) SOUTHBOUND ON EMPTY Guardrails melting into light Every town erased by speed Driving like the road might finally Burn your name out of me [singer A] [Outro, abrupt tape-stop collapse, dying alternator whine, cassette warble, fading hiss] Long way home Long way— (Hiss swallowing the signal) (Engine knock fading into tape warble)
