UNDERSTOOD THE MAP

[VERSE 1 — intimate, suspended; soft fingerpicked guitar, distant glass bells] Your hands off the wheel in mine, your knees doing the work The radio low, something we both know Windows down, fireflies pouring through the car I'd loved you long before I ever let it have a name And somehow, beside you, everything inside me stopped looking for an exit I still hear us singing half wrong, half laughing streetlights folding into little constellations For once, I wasn't asking where this was going I was just there with you And I didn't want to ruin this— (but something in you did) [CHORUS — dream-pop bloom; celestial trap pulse, wide guitars, bolero percussion underneath] For once, the night became a gentle storm filled with shooting stars showing me another path and finally my mind went quiet not because I knew it was the right one but because I'd finally understood the map [POST — vocal ghosts drifting L/R] (Ooooooh) Maybe that was enough (Aaaaaah) Maybe that was everything [VERSE 2 — more surreal; reverse guitar breaths, muted bongó martillo, soft sub heartbeat] The streetlights blurred like we had all the time and maybe we did I'd already waited years I never thought calm would look like this your profile in passing light now, one hand resting on the wheel the whole night moving and somehow I wasn't afraid of where it went You turned and smiled and every road behind us disappeared I thought maybe that was what love did made the distance feel less dangerous made the unknown feel familiar And I didn't want to ruin this— (but I had no road left to stay on) [BRIDGE — nearly weightless; fingerpicked guitar, sparse bolero percussion, distant piano dust] I loved you before you were mine before there was a road to follow before I knew what your hands felt like before your voice became somewhere I could rest I loved you quietly for years and when you finally held me I thought maybe I'd reached something not an ending just a place where fear stopped speaking But god, I'd give anything to be back in that car before the signs changed before the road split before I knew what waited past the turn Before it happened (Before it happened…) (Before it happened…) [OUTRO — dissolving; guitar haze, granular vocal fragments, one final bolero pulse] (Ooooooh) Stay there… just a little longer (Aaaaaah) somewhere under those lights before the map meant anything before I knew how to read it I still feel you (Mmmmh…) like the road never ended