Halfway Down the Highway

[Title: Halfway Down the Highway] [Intro - Soft Piano and Acoustic Guitar] (Oh...) Halfway down the highway... Halfway home... [Verse 1] If the phone lights up at two a.m., And all I hear is you breaking again, You don't have to tell me what made you cry, You don't have to find the words tonight. I'll grab my keys before you speak, Drive through the dark to wherever you need, By the time you whisper, "Please don't go," I'll be chasing headlights down that road. [Pre-Chorus] I may not have the right to call you mine, But love has never cared about the time. If you need me, I already know, There's no distance I won't try to close. [Chorus] I'll be halfway down the highway Before you ever say my name, Following your broken breathing, Driving straight into your pain. I know you were never mine to keep, But you'll never have to hurt alone. If you call me at two in the morning, I'll be halfway down the road. [Echo] Halfway down the highway... Trying my best to bring you home. [Verse 2] Maybe loving you was never about Holding on until the lights went out. Maybe you were never mine to own, Just someone my heart refused to leave alone. I cannot promise time will let you stay, I cannot make forever feel this way, But while your voice can still reach mine, I'll answer every single time. [Pre-Chorus] Because loving you was more than just a claim, It was showing up when nobody came. And even if tomorrow takes you far, Tonight I'll drive to where you are. [Chorus] I'll be halfway down the highway Before you ever say my name, Following your broken breathing, Driving straight into your pain. I know you were never mine to keep, But you'll never have to hurt alone. If you call me at two in the morning, I'll be halfway down the road. [Echo] Halfway down the highway... Trying my best to bring you home. [Verse 3] There are people we are meant to hold, And people we must someday let go. But letting go could never make untrue Every mile my heart once drove for you. You taught me love could feel like peace, That fear could loosen, even if it didn't leave. You showed me I was worth the drive, Worth being loved while I was still alive. Now every road remembers you, Every midnight carries something true. I couldn't keep you, though I tried, But I still carry you inside. [Instrumental Build] [Bridge] I told you once we were running out of time, I didn't know those words would change my life. I only felt the clock beneath my skin, Begging us to love while love was still within reach. Now I would give anything to hear that call, To find you waiting somewhere through it all. I'd cross every mile between then and now If there were still a road that led me back somehow. And I still hear those three words sometimes, Moving through the darkness like a roadside sign. [Breakdown - Soft Vocals] "Don't get lost..." (Don't get lost...) "Don't get lost..." (Don't get lost...) Don't get lost trying to bring back What time has taken. But if your voice could reach me tonight, I swear I'd follow it through every light. [Final Chorus - Full Band and Stacked Harmonies] I'd be halfway down the highway Before you ever said my name, Following your broken breathing, Driving straight into your pain. You were never mine forever, But the love was always real. And losing you could never take away Everything you taught my heart to feel. If you called me at two in the morning, I would answer like I always do. I'd be halfway down the highway, Still trying my best to get to you. [Backing Vocals] Halfway down the highway... With your memory riding beside me. Halfway down the highway... Loving you without trying to own you. Halfway down the highway... Though you were never mine to keep. [Outro - Piano, Soft Guitar, Fading Vocals] The phone stays quiet, The road runs on, The night moves slowly Toward another dawn. And I finally understand What love asked me to do. Not to keep you forever... Just to love you While I had you. [Whispered Echo] Don't get lost... Don't get lost... I'm still finding my way home. [Fade Out] Halfway down the highway... Halfway home...