[Verse 1]
Seat back
Engine breathing
Dashboard glow on her tired eyes
She says
"Baby
I can’t keep it together"
While the world draws little red lines
My hands shake on the steering
Rearview full of blue and red ghosts
Feels like everyone’s aiming for us
Feels like I’m driving through a firing post
[Chorus]
So I just floor it in my ML500
Let it eat up every mile of the night
Me and my gurlzilla both feel cornered
Like every window’s got a barrel in sight
I just wanna drive for hours
No number
Till the weight in my chest lets go
Highway humming like a prayer for the broken
’Cause staying here feels like nowhere to go
[Verse 2]
Bills stacked in the glove box
Texts buzzing like a war in my hand
Her voice cracks
Says she’s drowning
In a life built on quicksand
Outside looks like a dead end maze
Inside we’re one bad thought from the edge
If the pressure pulls the trigger on us
Will the tires drag us back from the ledge?
[Chorus]
So I just floor it in my ML500
Let it eat up every mile of the night
Me and my gurlzilla both feel cornered
Like every window’s got a barrel in sight
I just wanna drive for hours
No number
Till the weight in my chest lets go
Highway humming like a prayer for the broken
’Cause staying here feels like nowhere to go
[Bridge]
[Guitars drop to clean
Drums on toms]
Headlights carve a tunnel through the panic
Her hand finds mine
Ice and static (oh)
If the world wants a piece of us
They can chase dust
Chase rust
[Band slams back in]
’Cause this wheel
This steel
This lane we own
Is the one place left that feels like home
[Chorus]
So I just floor it in my ML500
Let it eat up every mile of the night
Me and my gurlzilla both feel cornered
Like every window’s got a barrel in sight
I just wanna drive for hours
No number
Till the weight in my chest lets go
Highway humming like a prayer for the broken
’Cause staying here feels like nowhere to go
[Outro]
Let the tank run dry
I don’t care (yeah)
If it gets us one more state from despair
In my ML500
Lights low
Hearts loud
We’re ghosts on the road
Can’t shoot us down