Midnight Exit

Cold start, blue haze in the air

Dashboard glow like a warning prayer

Streetlights drag in a broken line

Lost another hour to the interstate signs

Blacktop calling like it knows my name

Every mile feels the same

Rearview full of ghosts I knew

City disappears when I punch right through

And the tires sing

Like they got something to prove

No destination, only motion

Only things I never say out loud

Hands shake on the wheel sometimes

But the engine never asks me why

So I keep that throttle breathing

Like the night and I got unfinished business

Exit signs blur into static rain

Heartbeat synced with the lane change

Too fast to think, too slow to heal

But for a second out here everything feels real