[Intro: Harmonies]
(Mmm-mmm-mmm) (Oh-oh-oh, yeah) An hour down the highway... (Hey! Ho!)
[Verse 1]
I was mapping out the distance, trying to justify the wall (Yeah, the wall)
November in the rain, I thought the driving said it all
An hour and fifteen minutes down a dead-end, twisted road
While you were in the quiet, waiting to share the load (Share the load)
Always checking in, keeping time so steady and true
While I was waking from the shadows, trying to get to you (Get to you, oh)
[Pre-Chorus: Stomps Build]
Three years on the graveyard shift, but we're stepping into the sun (Rising up!)
Changing up the rhythm for the life that we've begun... (We just begun)
If I could chase the chaos through the heaviest dark of night
Why wouldn't I give this steady ground a chance to make it right? (Make it right!)
[Beat Drop: Stomp and Shout]
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Let's go!)
[Chorus: Full Band]
'Cause you’re a quiet kind of steady, an open-hearted space! (So steady!)
Holding all my history and wreckage with your grace (With your grace!)
No more hiding in the dark, no more secrets to repeat
Just a highway on a Saturday where parallel pieces meet (We meet, we meet!)
Yeah, we're stepping into the light! Leaving the night shift behind! (Leave it behind!)
[Post-Chorus: Chant]
Oh, parallel pieces, meeting on the road (Meeting on the road)
Oh, first shift rising, letting go of the load! (Let it go!)
No pulling away, no pulling away, yeah. We're stepping in the light today! (Hey!)
[Verse 2]
Grounded Christian roots, rewriting those Witness lines (Witness lines)
Two Irish twins who finally learned to read the signs (I see you, yeah)
You’ve got your daughter, got your boy navigating through the clear
And I don’t feel like a distraction when I'm standing right here
'Cause when the morning broke, the walls didn't appear
Intimacy over and over, keeping you right near (Keeping you near, mmm)
[Bridge: Passionate Build]
You didn't pull away... (No!) you didn't rush to wash the skin (Never!)
You stayed right by my side, letting the genuine warmth pour in (Pour it in!)
No more watering a hollow seed, begging for a crumb
Yeah, look at what we've begun! (Look what we started, oh!)
[Chorus: Acapella Breakdown]
[Acapella]
'Cause you’re a quiet kind of steady, an open-hearted space...
Holding all my history and wreckage with your grace...
[Instruments Crash In]
No more hiding in the dark, no more secrets to repeat!
Just a highway on a Saturday where parallel pieces meet! (Parallel pieces meet!)
[Post-Chorus: Chant]
Oh, parallel pieces, meeting on the road (Meeting on the road)
Oh, first shift rising, letting go of the load! (Let it go!)
No pulling away, no pulling away, yeah. We're stepping in the light today!
[Outro]
An hour out to Reading... (Reading, yeah)
You stayed right here. (You stayed right here)
No pullback. First shift rising. (Rising up, rising up)
Just the sun. (Ooh, just the sun)
(Mmm-mmm, oh-oh-oh) (Yeah, steady ground)
[Fade Out]
[End]
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