[Verse 1]
Half past curfew
Headlights cutting through the soybeans
Sneaking out your window
Boots on the roof like a drumbeat
Mama thinks you’re sleeping
Dad’s chair stuck to that TV glow
You slide in my front seat
Whisper, “Drive and don’t go slow”
[Chorus]
Half past curfew, hearts past saving
Speeding down a two-lane, faithless, waving
Middle finger up to tomorrow, yeah, we break rules
Kissing in the dash-light, halfway faithful, halfway fools
Half past curfew, we’re past careful
Laughing like the law could never catch us at all
If we burn, we burn in full view
Half past, half past curfew
[Verse 2]
Phone on airplane, town on silent
Mud on the chrome from a week of rain
You rap that verse about small-town violence
Then switch to a drawl when you say my name
We got gas station coffee
We got four good songs and an empty road
You lean back, feet on the console
Say, “I swear this beat just saved my soul”
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Blue lights in the mirror
Or just stars on the hood?
Would you ride if it’s rough
Like you said you would?
If the sun finds us guilty
Painted red in the rearview
I’ll still choose this stupid, wild
Half past, half past you
[Chorus]