**"Northbound"**
*(Verse 1)*
The tires hum beneath my feet,
Like they've been waiting all these years.
Every mile unties a knot
I couldn't loosen standing here.
I don't know every road ahead,
I don't need every answer now.
The map unfolds beneath the wheels,
That's enough somehow.
*(Pre-Chorus)*
There's a horizon with my name...
I can almost hear it call.
*(Chorus)*
I'm northbound...
Southbound...
East and west if that's the way.
I'm not searching for a place...
I'm becoming one each day.
Every stranger is a story.
Every city holds a spark.
Every sunrise pulls me farther
From the man who feared the dark.
So let the highways write the chapters,
Let the mountains shape my soul.
I stopped waiting for tomorrow...
Now the journey is the goal.
*(Verse 2)*
A circle gathers in a park,
Someone asks me, "What is that?"
I smile...
Hand them the lever...
Watch their shoulders soften back.
A kid begins to laugh out loud.
An old man stands a little tall.
Someone whispers, "I needed this..."
Maybe...
That's why I came at all.
*(Chorus)*
I'm northbound...
Southbound...
Following a winding thread.
Planting little sparks of healing
Anywhere my tires tread.
Love is not a distant country.
Purpose isn't far away.
Maybe they're just waiting
At the next stop on the way.
*(Bridge)*
One day she'll walk into the circle.
She won't know my name just yet.
She'll see the way I teach...
The way I laugh...
The way I never quit.
She won't love me for my history.
She won't need to heal my scars.
She'll meet the man
Who kept on driving...
Following his northern star.
*(Final Chorus)*
I'm still climbing.
Still creating.
Still becoming something new.
Trading certainty for wonder.
Trading comfort for the view.
Every mile is an investment.
Every risk becomes a seed.
And the life I've been imagining...
Is already chasing me.
*(Outro)*
Windows down...
Heart awake...
Hands on the wheel...
No more brakes.
The road...
The people...
The work...
The love...
They're not behind me.
They're ahead.
