Room Twelve

Verse 1

Neon sign flickers on the rooftop edge

Room twelve and a bolted door

My boots still wet from the interstate rain

Counting coins on the bedside drawer

The clerk gave a key with a plastic tag

Said the coffee's fresh by six

I pulled the blinds on the highway hum

Let the quiet do its tricks

Pre-Chorus

And I keep driving through the dark

Looking for a place to park my heart

Chorus

Motel lights keep burning

While I'm chasing what I'm learning

Every room a small beginning

Every dawn a chance I'm taking

Motel lights keep burning on

Verse 2

Photograph of mountains on the faded wall

A Bible in the drawer

I traced the map on my crumpled hand

Wondering what the miles are for

Each town curls up like cigarette smoke

Each goodbye hangs in the air

But the roadside keeps calling me forward

Like a prayer without a prayer

Pre-Chorus

And I keep running through the year

With a suitcase full of fear

Chorus

Motel lights keep burning

While I'm chasing what I'm learning

Every room a small beginning

Every dawn a chance I'm taking

Motel lights keep burning on

Bridge

Somewhere past the gravel lot

A radio hums a song I know

And I think of all the doors I've shut

And the ones I've left ajar to go

Chorus

Motel lights keep burning

While I'm chasing what I'm learning

Every room a small beginning

Every dawn a chance I'm taking

Motel lights keep burning on

Outro

Mm-mm

Burning on

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Burning on