[Intro] (reverb guitar + distant drums) You lean your head against the window Blue light flickers on your face There’s static on the radio But you still sing anyway Your shoes up on the dashboard Street signs flying past too fast You say you wanna leave this place And never look back [Verse 1] You always said this town was haunted By every version of yourself Late-night drives through empty parking lots Trying to be somebody else And everybody talks like they know you Like they were there inside your head But they never saw the long nights Or the tears you never said You spent whole summers getting older In the backrooms of your friends’ houses Trying to drown the silence out With cheap guitars and loudness [Pre-Chorus] Now your heart beats Like the kick drum in the backseat Running every red light Trying to feel alive And your voice shakes Like the speakers when they break But you keep singing anyway Like you’ve got something left to save [Chorus] She deserves this (x2) The neon glow and blurry kisses The city air at 2 AM Where nobody remembers She deserves this (x2) The loud guitars and cheap cigarettes Every dream they told her to forget Now she’s living in it Oh-oh-oh (x2) She deserves this [Verse 2] You cut your hair inside the bathroom While your favorite record played Said you were tired of disappearing Inside everybody’s expectations Now your shoes scrape across sidewalks In a place that feels brand new And for the first time in a long time You don’t hate the way you move The train tracks hum beneath the overpass Like some old forgotten song And every little thing that hurt before Doesn’t hit as hard now [Pre-Chorus] Your heartbeat Like the speakers at a house show Everything is shaking But maybe that’s okay And your eyes glow From the city lights below Like you’re finally seeing A future of your own [Chorus] She deserves this (x2) The reckless nights and train stations The broken lights and conversations That last until the morning She deserves this (x2) Every moment she was scared of Every single kind of freedom She thought she’d never touch Oh-oh-oh (x2) She deserves this [Bridge] (distorted guitars swell) So let the coastline disappear In the rearview mirror tonight You spent too long surviving Now you finally feel alive And maybe nothing lasts forever Maybe everybody leaves But at least tonight you’re laughing Like you finally believe [Instrumental Break] (fuzzy guitar riff + crashing drums) Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Static in the summer air Your voice echoes everywhere Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Headlights blur into the night Everything will be alright [Final Chorus] She deserves this (x2) The rooftop views and midnight diners The tangled wires and burned CDs The nights that turn to memories She deserves this (x2) The crowded rooms and bad decisions The old cassette tapes in the kitchen Spinning like a movie scene She deserves this (x2) Every tear and every heartbreak Every risk she was afraid to take Led her right here Oh-oh-oh (x2) She deserves this [Outro] (slower, dreamy) And the streetlights flicker silver Across your tired eyes You smile like you finally believe it Blue light flickers on your face The city disappears behind us And for the first time in forever You look alive.
