Afterimage

Verse 1

Your coat still hangs behind my door

I never moved it from before

Funny how a room can lie

Like you just stepped outside

The city spills beneath my wheels

All silver glass and window steel

Every light becomes a trace

Then for a second, wears your face

Pre-Chorus

I know you're gone

I know, I know

So why does every road

Lead where we used to go?

Chorus

AFTERIMAGE

Stay in my eyes

Long after you

Fade from the light

AFTERIMAGE

Bright when I blink

I leave you behind

Then there you are again

No, I don't want you back

I just want back

The one I was

Before we crashed

Verse 2

We never had a final scene

No perfect words, no limousine

Just your hand leaving mine

At an ordinary traffic light

That almost hurts the most somehow

No thunder then, no thunder now

The world kept moving right on cue

Like nothing happened when I lost you

Pre-Chorus

I know you're gone

The road knows too

Still every empty seat

Makes room for you

Chorus

AFTERIMAGE

Stay in my eyes

Long after you

Fade from the light

AFTERIMAGE

Bright when I blink

I leave you behind

Then there you are again

No, I don't want you back

I just want The one I are

see

Past where you were

road is still

Guitar Solo

Bridge

I press the pedal to the floor

Your ghost is something I ignore

The tachometer climbs so high

Like the reasons I don't cry

The synthesizer screams alone

Inside this metal and this chrome

Every mile I put between

Just makes your face more clearly seen

Pre-Chorus

I know you're gone

The road knows too

Still every empty seat

Makes room for you

Chorus

AFTERIMAGE

Stay in my eyes

Long after you

Fade from the light

AFTERIMAGE

Bright when I blink

I leave you behind

Then there you are again

No, I don't want you back

I just want back

The one I was

Before we crashed

Post-Chorus

Racing through the neon

Racing through the night

Every turn I'm taking

Burning twice as bright

Key Change

Verse 3

Another city, another sign

I'm leaving all of us behind

The radio plays songs we knew

I sing along to something new

The dashboard glows electric blue

I'm learning to forget on cue

The way you laughed, the way you'd lean

That photograph is somewhere unseen

Pre-Chorus

I know you're gone

I know, I know

The engine's screaming

Time to let you go

Chorus

AFTERIMAGE

Stay in my eyes

Long after you

Fade from the light

AFTERIMAGE

Bright when I blink

I leave you behind

Then there you are again

No, I don't want you back

I just want back

The one I was

Before we crashed

Post-Chorus

Racing through the neon

Racing through the night

Every turn I'm taking

Burning twice as bright

Outro

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