🌑 Verse 1
Headlights hum like a low confession,
Midnight stitched into the road.
I kept your name in every silence,
Like a debt I never owed.
Town signs blur into old decisions,
Every mile sheds a skin,
I learned the weight of holding on
Is heavier than leaving things.
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🌉 Pre-Chorus
I wore the past like a second spine,
Bent me slow, but I stayed upright.
Some truths don’t scream when they arrive,
They just loosen their grip at night.
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🔥 Chorus
There’s ashes in my rearview, drifting out of sight,
Every fire I survived still flickers in the night.
I’m not chasing peace, I just chose what’s true,
I don’t need the smoke to remember you.
I’m still breathing, still moving through,
With ashes in my rearview.
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🛣 Verse 2
Your shadow learned my posture well,
Stood behind me when I spoke.
I mistook endurance for devotion,
And loyalty for hope.
Every warning came in whispers,
I called it background noise,
Turns out staying silent that long
Is still a kind of choice.
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🌉 Pre-Chorus 2
I kept rebuilding what wouldn’t stand,
Called it love, called it grace.
But some doors only open wide
Once you stop guarding the place.
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🔥 Chorus
Smoke don’t follow once you cross the line,
What burned me down don’t get my time.
I don’t curse the match or the fuse,
I just learned what not to lose.
I’m not healed, but I’m through,
With the ashes in my rearview.
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🌅 Bridge
Some fires teach you how to see,
Not everything that warms is kind.
I don’t carry what couldn’t carry me,
I let it fall behind.
The road don’t ask me who I was,
Only where I aim to go,
Turns out peace is just momentum
Once you finally let it roll.
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🔥 Final Chorus
No mirrors shaking, no second guess,
No names echoing in my chest.
I gave the past what it was due,
A memory, not a view.
I’m not lost, I just outgrew
What left ashes in my rearview.
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🌑 Outro
Engine low, horizon new,
Nothing left I need to prove.
The fire’s gone, the road is true—
Just distance where the damage grew.
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