Midnight in Memphis

(Engine idling, cicadas, distant train horn, faint preacher sample)

You can’t outrun what’s in you…

(whispered ad-libs: ride… don’t stop…)

Seat leaned back, hat low, state tag crooked

Cooler in the trunk, ice clink every time I push it

Lil city in the rearview, peelin' off slow from the sto'

Cicadas in the ditch hum, same pitch as the flow

Pecan shells by my feet from my uncle on the farm road

Mud on my heel, red clay in my barcode

Got a Bible on the dash and a pistol in the console

Heart heavy, hands steady, eyes on the zip code

Riiidin’ in my box Chevy down in Memphis

(slight echo: Memphis…)

Same old streets, but they feel different

Chrome keep shinin’ while my past keep spinnin’

I ain’t where I’m goin’, but I ain’t where I been yet

Ridin’ in my box Chevy down in Memphis

Seat got tears but my soul still in it

Slow roll, pray the Lord stay in my business

If I make it home tonight…

then I swear I’m winnin’

(low layer: or am I…)

Old school preacher on a sample talkin’ ‘bout sin

While my cousin on the corner tryna get it how he live

Got a straw hat hangin’ from the mirror, smell like hay

I was raised between the gravel road and one-way

Gas light on, but the faith on full

Waffle spot open all night, postin’ up, cool

Baby text say she tired of the same small talk

"Boy, pull up or you lyin’" hit the turn, don’t stop

Country boy heart, city boy habits

Gravel in my voice, but the pain still satin

Corners of the map all stitched in my jacket

If I say I love you, then you know I gotta back it

Ridin’ in my box Chevy down in Memphis

Same old streets… but they feel like a sentence

Chrome still shinin’, but the past don’t end it

I been runnin’ so long, I forget what rest is

Ridin’ in my box Chevy down in Memphis

Seat still torn but my soul still in it

Slow roll… shadows all in my vision

If I make it home tonight…

I might finally feel forgiven…

(echo: forgiven… given…)

(Engine idling, wind, cicadas, faint whisper: ride…)

Engine still runnin’, I just let it idle…

Same road… just darker now…