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

acoustic indie folk, storytelling, bittersweet