Midnight Mile and the Shadow Seat

Fog unravels on the dashboard light

Eighteen wheels hum through endless night

Faded map and truck stop coffee stains

Windshield's caught a thousand dreams and rain

Empty highway, only time and me again

But there's a whisper on the CB line

A story flickers, tangled up in mine

I talk to shadows in the passenger seat

A restless ghost, bootsless feet

He asks me if regrets ever learn to sleep

Out here where memory and blacktop meet

Just me and him and the road’s heartbeat

His hand drifts softly through the static air

He laughs, says truth’s just another dare

Echoes of home in every on-ramp sigh

We share our secrets and leave the answers behind

High beams stretch belief until it’s hard to find

He asks me where forgiveness hides

And if I’m running or just passing time

I talk to shadows in the passenger seat

A restless ghost, bootsless feet

He asks me if regrets ever learn to sleep

Out here where memory and blacktop meet

Just me and him and the road’s heartbeat

Neon coupons on a desolate stormy floor

He wonders what I carry all these miles for

I tell him hope rides shotgun with the ache

Sometimes the hardest journeys keep you awake

I talk to shadows in the passenger seat

A restless ghost, bootsless feet

He asks me if regrets ever learn to sleep

Out here where memory and blacktop meet

Just me and him and the road’s heartbeatHeadlights fade but the questions remain

Rolling on with the midnight rain