Traces in dust

Verse 1)

I look at the mirror, but the reflection is old

Just another ghost story that's already been told

We ran through the lightning, we laughed at the scars

Burying our secrets underneath the cold stars

But the engine is quiet, and the glow is dead

And all of those choices are spinning in my head.

Chorus

And we're riding a highway that melts into night

Chasing the shadows, outrunning the light

Nobody can tell me how the map's supposed to end

Just a long, broken line past the very last bend

Yeah, we're drifting away on a track no one knows

Where the black river runs and the cold wind blows.

Verse 2

They promised us silver, they promised us gold

For selling the pieces of the youth that we hold

I spent too many years just escaping the cage

Tearing the chapters right out of the page

Now the baseline is heavy, and the crowd has gone home

And the king on the stage is just sitting alone.

Chorus

And we're riding a highway that melts into night

Chasing the shadows, outrunning the light

Nobody can tell me how the map's supposed to end

Just a long, broken line past the very last bend

Yeah, we're drifting away on a track no one knows

Where the black river runs and the cold wind blows.

(Guitar Solo / Bridge)

(Heavy, soaring guitar work mimicking a sense of isolation and journeying)

Is there anyone waiting at the edge of the sky?

Or do we just run until the well runs dry?

No regrets for the fire, no apologies made

As the colors of morning slowly start to fade...

Chorus

'Cause we're riding a highway that melts into night

Chasing the shadows, outrunning the light

Nobody can tell me how the map's supposed to end

Just a long, broken line past the very last bend

Yeah, we're drifting away on a track no one knows

Where the black river runs and the cold wind blows.

Outro

Just traces in the dust...

Yeah, it all turns to rust...

On this highway...

On this track no one knows...

Fade into the night.