Blue Jeans & Backseat Stars

We roll past the diner

Where we learn to disappear

Street lights on the dashboard

Your shadow still feels near

The old arcade is sleeping

But I can hear the change

We were only chasing daylight

And it never felt the same

Every turn we took was just a spark against the dark

Every empty parking lot still keeps a copy of our heart

Drop you to the places where we first fell free

Where the night was shut open and it looked like clean

Could have been tomorrow with the windows down

And every little memory still hums on this town

There were echoes you were meant to find

Now the echoes in the rearview light up the sky

And I'm smiling to the edge as the miles unwind

Taking me back to the first time I felt alive

Past the corner thru store

Past the ball and alley sign

Past the field behind the school

Where we swore we had more time

Your laugh lives in the pavement

My name in the noise

Still I chase that little moment

When we became our own voices

Every red light holds a flash of who we used to be

Every song on the radio

Brings you back to me

Drawn you through the places

Where we first felt free

But the night was wide open

And it looked likely

Could all end tomorrow with the windows down

And every little memory still haunts in this town

We were bright, we were reckless, we were bent to fly

Now the echo in the rear feel like the sky

And I'm smiling to the ear, guess the mind's all mine

Taking me back to the first time I felt alive

Maybe growing up is learning how to miss the spark

How to hold the little ghosts that keep you in the dark

But tonight, I'm not afraid of what may left behind

If I follow all the headlights, I can't borrow back the time

Drives me to the places where we first felt free

Where the night was wide open and I looked like Lee

I could open tomorrow with the windows down

And every little memory still haunting this town

Oh, we grind through a reckless, we waited to fly

Now the echoes in the rearview line up the sky

And I'm smiling through the ache as the miles unwind

Taking me back to the first time I felt alive

Half the old pain melts

I'm still that kid inside

We grew up like an answer

And the stars opened wide