Brice Ringsteen - Headlights on the County Line

Intro

Verse

The mill shut down last September

Left a silence in the yard

Dust on every broken window

Dreams working twice as hard

Tommy’s pouring drinks on Main Street

Jenny’s counting tips at night

We were kids chasing thunder

Now we're chasing headlights

Pre-Chorus

And the radio keeps playing

Songs about escape

But the road ain't just a highway

It’s the chances that we take

Chorus

So meet me where the county line bends

Where the dark meets the morning sky

We’ll drive until the past gives in

Leave the ghosts and the reasons why

With your hand in mine and the engine whining

Like a prayer in the wind tonight

We’ll be free in the headlights

On the county line

Verse 2

Your daddy said I was trouble

Just a boy with gasoline dreams

But every town needs a rebel

To shake it out of its seams

There’s a map on the dashboard fading

From a thousand miles of hope

But the only place that matters

Is wherever we can cope

Pre-Chorus

Yeah the world may try to break you

With its bills and broken rules

But the stars don’t ask for permission

And neither should we, too

Chorus

So meet me where the county line bends

Where the dark meets the morning sky

We’ll drive until the past gives in

Leave the ghosts and the reasons why

With your hand in mine and the engine whining

Like a prayer in the wind tonight

We’ll be free in the headlights

On the county line

Bridge

Maybe freedom ain’t a place

Maybe it’s just two hearts running

From the weight of yesterday

Toward a dawn that’s always coming

Guitar Solo

Final Chorus

So meet me where the county line bends

Where the night turns gold with light

We’ll outrun every “what if” then

Every wrong and every right

With the wheels still turning

And the sky still burning

Like a promise shining bright

We’ll be free in the headlights

On the county line

Outro