Take You Home Tonight

You’re laughing in that old booth

Lipstick on a plastic straw

You say you’re fine

But your eyes

Tell a different story

Bar lights on your bare shoulders

Jacket slipping off your chair

You say you “should head back soon”

But you’re still not moving

So let me take you home tonight

Slow roads

Windows down

No hurry

Every red light

Every right turn

Stretch it out

Make it last

Don’t worry

Let me take you home tonight

Street names fading in your smile

If it’s wrong to want you this close

Then wrong feels right for a while

You trace shapes on the glass

Fog from how we’re breathing

Your playlist on my front seat

Playing all your secrets

You talk about your first crush

That summer you got caught

I’m driving with one hand

The other fights the urge to hold yours

So let me take you home tonight

Slow roads

Windows down

No hurry

Every red light

Every right turn

Stretch it out

Make it last

Don’t worry

Let me take you home tonight

Street names fading in your smile

If it’s wrong to want you this close

Then wrong feels right for a while

We pull up to your doorway

Engine hum hanging in the air

Keys in your hand

But you just sit

Ask

“What are we doing here?”

I say

“We’re standing on a maybe

Balancing on borrowed time”

You laugh

Lean in

Say “Shut up”

And your answer’s in your eyes (oh)

So let me take you home tonight

Past the fear

Past the overthinking

Up the stairs

To the soft light

Where the room keeps shrinking

Let me take you home tonight

To the place you hide your heart

If it’s wrong to fall in this fast

Then let’s be wrong from the start