Fallen Angel Back Roads

[Verse 1]
Racing through the back roads
Gravel in my rearview
Engine screaming your name
Like it’s trying to find you
Open fields around me
Nothing but the wind here
Every mile I’m chasing
What I drove into the mirror
[Chorus]
Fallen angel
Are you out there?
‘Cause I’m lost
I’m lost
I’m barely breathing
Looking to the sky like you might care
To pull me from this wreck I’m in
This feeling
Save me from this heartbreak
This misery
Bring back the part of me you took when you left me
[Verse 2]
Your jacket on my front seat
Smells like one last summer
I replay that slamming door
Every turn
It hits me harder
Headlights cut the darkness
But they can’t cut through my shame
Every empty farmhouse
Knows I’m the one to blame
[Chorus]
Fallen angel
Are you out there?
‘Cause I’m lost
I’m lost
I’m barely breathing
Looking to the sky like you might care
To pull me from this wreck I’m in
This feeling
Save me from this heartbreak
This misery
Bring back the part of me you took when you left me
[Bridge]
If you’re watching
If you’re listening (oh-oh)
I’m down on my last prayer
Last kiss
If you won’t come back to hold me
At least teach me how to live like this
[Chorus]
Fallen angel
Are you out there?
‘Cause I’m lost
I’m lost
I’m barely breathing
Looking to the sky like you might care
To pull me from this wreck I’m in
This feeling
Save me from this heartbreak
This misery
Or let this old back road just swallow what’s left of me

Moody country-rock ballad, male vocals. Fingerpicked acoustic and airy electric guitars over a slow, dusty groove; subtle organ pads. Verses stay intimate and low; chorus opens with stacked harmonies and a soaring melody. Light ride cymbal and warm bass underpin the motion, with a brief, reverb-washed guitar swell in the bridge to lift into the final hook., fallen angel