Where the highway ends

(Verse 1)

The porch light flickers like it knows my sin

Mom’s old prayers still hang on the wind

My boots by the door, dust on the floor

Heart in reverse, can’t stay here anymore

The town don’t change, it just watches you fade

Same faces, same bar, same dead parade

I’ve been dying in familiar hands

Time to bleed out in some stranger land

(Pre-Chorus)

Got a cracked map and a restless soul

Every goodbye carves another hole

If freedom’s hell, then let it burn

I was born to never return

(Chorus)

I’m gone, I’m gone, down that line again

Chasing ghosts where the highway ends

Smoke in my lungs, fire in my chest

Home’s just a scar I tried to forget

The rearview’s crying, but I don’t bend

Yeah, I’ll find myself where the highway ends

(Verse 2)

Dad’s old jacket, smell of gasoline

Left my name on a love I couldn’t clean

Radio whispers, “boy, don’t look back”

But the past keeps crawling up my tracks

Every town feels the same damn way

Another bar, another debt to pay

Freedom’s a cage without the chains

But it’s the only drug that numbs the pain

(Pre-Chorus)

The night’s alive, it calls me close

With a thousand lies I almost chose

But I’d rather die beneath these stars

Than live forever behind those bars

(Chorus)

I’m gone, I’m gone, down that line again

Chasing ghosts where the highway ends

Smoke in my lungs, fire in my chest

Home’s just a scar I tried to forget

The rearview’s crying, but I don’t bend

Yeah, I’ll find myself where the highway ends

(Bridge)

Tell my mother I’m still breathing

Tell my father I’m still dreaming

I don’t need forgiveness, I need a road

That’ll carry this heavy soul

(Final Chorus)

I’m gone, I’m gone, down that line again

Chasing ghosts where the highway ends

I’ll drink to the pain, toast to the past

Burning rubber through what couldn’t last

If I don’t come back, don’t pretend

I was born to ride where the highway ends