[Verse 1]
Met your face through a screen glow
Typed your name like a prayer
Slow
Every message
Every midnight
Felt like fate trying to rewrite
Threw a bag in the backseat
Coffee stains on the front sheet
Every state line
I replayed
How you said you felt unsafe
[Pre-Chorus]
Highway humming
Heart on high
Counting exits
Asking why
You had to live that breaking part
While I rehearsed “you’re safe” in the dark
[Chorus]
Forty hours to forever
I was choosing you each mile
Every sunrise in the rearview
Was another chance to smile
Turned your pain into a promise
Pulled you out of that old mess
From “are you okay?” to “you’re my princess”
Now it’s ours
Yeah
Forever’s ours
[Verse 2]
You were waiting by a torn door
Bag packed
Eyes on the cold floor
One small wave
Then you ran fast
Like the future finally came back
I took your hand
Said “You’re with me now”
You looked up like you could breathe out
Threw your past in the back with the spare tire
Drove away from every liar
[Pre-Chorus]
Radio low
Your voice small
Spilling names
Telling it all
I just listened
Knuckles white
Till your laughter cut the night
[Chorus]
Forty hours to forever
I was choosing you each mile
Every sunrise in the rearview
Was another chance to smile
Turned your pain into a promise
Pulled you out of that old mess
From “are you okay?” to “you’re my princess”
Now it’s ours
Yeah
Forever’s ours
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] Wrong story in the rearview
Right one in the front seat
You leaned on my shoulder
Said
“Guess I’m finally free”
I kissed your hand at a red light
Said
“I’d drive it all again”
Every second of the long ride
Just to call you more than friend
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