Midnight Engine

Black tint

Slow turn

Ash tray

Still burn

Eyes red

Thousand-yard stare

Empty bottle rolling by the spare

Gunmetal sky

Low hum

Cold phone

You never come

Street sign shaking in the wind

Every bad thought creeping in

I’m riding this midnight engine

Heart knocking like it’s caged in my chest

Every shadow feels like vengeance

Can’t tell the hunter apart from the guest

I keep sinking

I keep sinking

In a room that I made in my head

On this midnight engine

Midnight engine

Chasing ghosts that already fled

Loose screw in the rearview

Shakes when I think of you

Rust ring on the dash from your drink

Your laugh in the static

Gone in a blink

Rain prints racing on the glass

Slow drip hour after hour pass

If I hit the gas

Would it break this spell

Or just write our names on the guardrail?

I’m riding this midnight engine

Heart knocking like it’s caged in my chest

Every shadow feels like vengeance

Can’t tell the hunter apart from the guest

I keep sinking

I keep sinking

In a room that I made in my head

On this midnight engine

Midnight engine

Chasing ghosts that already fled