Out of Space, Forest

Verse 1

We stole a hatchback to the edge of the pines

Your cold coffee steaming on the center line

You said the city's neon was eating our lungs

So we chased a star that the streetlights outrun

Sat on the hood while the satellites blurred

Scuffed our sneakers in the moss where the pines purr

We mapped constellations the maps never name

Said we'd outrun every rule they ever made

Pre-Chorus

But the wild city's hum it followed us out

Tangled in the branches tangled in the doubt

You said love's just gravity that pulls too tight

So you unclipped your boots and you took flight

Chorus

I'm still stuck in the in-between

Out of space forest wild city smoke

You left your jacket by the pine tree seam

Where the sky scrapes the dirt and the oak roots choke

We built a fire that the stars couldn't reach

Now the embers drift where the orbit's thin

Somewhere between the streetlight and the beach

I'm still the one gravity won't let win

Post-Chorus

Won't let win

Won't let win

Verse 2

I walked the downtown streets where we used to dance

The billboard lights bleed through the rain on my pants

I found the old spot where we'd laugh till we cried

The barman asks me where you been all this time

I drove back to the pines where the tall trees lean

Your initials carved where the bark turned green

I looked up at the dark where you said you'd go

But all I saw was the city's faint pale glow

Pre-Chorus

You texted once from a satellite phone

Said the void out here don't make you feel so alone

That the forest was quiet the city was loud

But up here the silence don't bite like the crowd

Chorus

I'm still stuck in the in-between

Out of space forest wild city smoke

You left your jacket by the pine tree seam

Where the sky scrapes the dirt and the oak roots choke

We built a fire that the stars couldn't reach

Now the embers drift where the orbit's thin

Somewhere between the streetlight and the beach

I'm still the one gravity won't let win

Post-Chorus

Won't let win

Won't let win

Bridge

They say love's a force that can't break apart

But you drifted light-years right out of my heart

Now the redwood roots twist where your footprint used to be

The city's car horns echo the blues in me

I don't know if you're above the atmosphere

Or lost in the woods where the lines disappear

But I still leave a light on the porch every night

For the ghost that left for the dark endless sky

Chorus

I'm still stuck in the in-between

Out of space forest wild city smoke

You left your jacket by the pine tree seam

Where the sky scrapes the dirt and the oak roots choke

We built a fire that the stars couldn't reach

Now the embers drift where the orbit's thin

Somewhere between the streetlight and the beach

I'm still the one gravity won't let win

Outro

Out of space forest wild city glow

I'm still the one that you didn't take home

The pines still hum the neon still bleeds

Gravity's last goodbye is all that I need