Rearview Neon

[Verse 1]

Cardboard boxes by the door

Half my life on the floor

Coffee gone cold on the sill

Sky the color of old film still

Train tracks humming through the glass

Writing names that never last

Every stairwell

Every bar

Pinned like postcards in my heart

[Chorus]

Goodbye to the rearview neon

Fading like a song at dawn

All of our summers

Stuck in the fog

Dancing in apartments

Curtains drawn

I’m driving out of the photograph

Edges curl and colors crack

Leaving this city behind at last

But it’s stitched in my past

[Verse 2]

Missed calls blinking in the dark

Your old sweater in my car

Windshield smeared with city rain

Street signs bleeding into spray

You said

“call me when you’re safe”

I said “sure

” then drove away

Every mile a little blur

Like I’m getting over her

[Chorus]

Goodbye to the rearview neon

Fading like a song at dawn

All of our summers

Stuck in the fog

Dancing in apartments

Curtains drawn

I’m driving out of the photograph

Edges curl and colors crack

Leaving this city behind at last

But it’s stitched in my past

[Bridge]

If I turn around

Will it all rewind?

Would we still be kids

Killing borrowed time? (oh)

If I turn around

Would you still be there

Painting constellations

On the midnight air?

[Chorus]

Goodbye to the rearview neon

Fading like a song at dawn

All of our summers

Stuck in the fog

Dancing in apartments

Curtains drawn

I’m driving out of the photograph

Edges curl and colors crack

Leaving this city behind at last

But you’re stitched in my past