Backroads & Bad Timing

Verse 1

There’s a road I still avoid

Past the house you once destroyed

With your silence and your leaving

Like it didn’t have a meaning

And the town still feels the same

Same old bar, same last names

Everybody’s moving slowly

But I’m stuck here getting lonely

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Pre-Chorus

I swore I’d be someone different

But I keep coming back

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Chorus (open, emotional)

And I’m tired of these backroads and bad timing

Everywhere I go just feels like rewinding

I’m half in the past, half trying to leave

But nothing here lets go of me

And I know I should be getting over you

But every street just pulls me back into

All the things I thought I’d outrun

Guess I never really moved on

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Verse 2

You said I’d be better off

Far away from all this stuff

But I took you with me anyway

Now you’re in everything I say

And I tried to start again

Different people, different friends

But it all feels kinda empty

Like I lost what used to tempt me

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Pre-Chorus

I thought distance would fix it

But it just made it loud

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Chorus

And I’m tired of these backroads and bad timing

Everywhere I go just feels like rewinding

I’m half in the past, half trying to leave

But nothing here lets go of me

And I know I should be getting over you

But every street just pulls me back into

All the things I thought I’d outrun

Guess I never really moved on

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Bridge (raw, confessional)

Maybe I don’t hate this town

Maybe I just hate who I was

When I let you stick around

Long enough to mess me up

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Final Chorus (bigger, cathartic)

And I’m tired of these backroads and bad timing

Every memory just keeps reminding

I can leave but I can’t outrun

Everything that I’ve become

And I know someday I’ll make it out clean

But right now it’s all just in between

Who I was and who I’m gonna be

And what you still mean to me