INTRO (spoken / soft vocal)
Sometimes when you’re riding for miles with somebody…
just the two of you and a long stretch of highway…
you start believing the distance might lead somewhere real.
Your hand resting across the console into mine,
the steady rhythm of tires beneath us.
And somewhere between the laughter and the quiet…
you start hoping the road is taking you somewhere honest.
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CHORUS
You say you want a woman, but you don’t
Say you need a friend, where you at though?
Said that you know me, but you don’t
Thought I was your girl… why you playin’ with me
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VERSE 1
Miles of pavement sliding beneath the headlights
Your laughter drifting softer than the radio
Talking ‘bout dreams you said you were still building
Like maybe I was the place you’d finally grow
Your fingers loosely resting over my
Like you were certain I was where you should be
Then your hoes calling your phone right beside me
A girl I thought you deleted anyways
You answered with a tone too careful to question
Promising her time somewhere later in the week
I turned the music down and faced you slowly
Said I thought that chapter had finally ceased
And I told you plain so you couldn’t ignore it—
You can’t discover love through somebody’s body
Two seconds of pleasure won’t measure devotion
And intimacy alone ain’t loyalty.
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CHORUS
You say you want a woman, but you don’t
Say you need a friend, where you at though?
Said that you know me, but you don’t
Thought I was your girl… why you playin’ with me
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VERSE 2
Months went by like unanswered questions
Every promise drifting incomplete
I gave you patience when your world felt unstable
A quiet place your heart could breathe
But one evening I chose distance over waiting
Sat across from someone new at dinner lights
Nothing reckless, just conversation and clarity
Remembering I deserved honesty in my life
Somehow you heard about the moment
And suddenly your certainty began to shake
You asked me to meet you where our road once started
Parked beneath that same familiar overpass
With trembling hands you erased every number
All the distractions you swore meant nothing to you
Said seeing me walking beside another
Was the truth you never wanted to view.
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CHORUS
You say you want a woman, but you don’t
Say you need a friend, where you at though?
Said that you know me, but you don’t
Thought I was your girl… why you playin’ with me
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OUTRO
Now the engine’s running but neither of us driving
Just two hearts sitting in the quiet again
You say you’re finally ready for something honest
But love isn’t what you promise in the moment…
It’s what you choose
when temptation calls again.