Left lane
2:17 AM
Same road again
Same radio
Same excuses
Gas station coffee
Cold in my hand
Half a tank left
Nowhere to land
Been driving circles
For way too long
Every billboard
Knows the words to the same old song
Last summer still lives
Inside my rear-view mirror
I keep pretending
It looks smaller than it is
Then a red light
A bus stop
A face I don't know
And somehow
The city changes color
Exit seventeen
Never noticed it before
Exit seventeen
Now I'm slowing down for sure
Funny how a stranger
Can rewrite a route
I spent months getting nowhere
Then I ran into you
Oh-oh-oh
Where did you come from
Oh-oh-oh
What did you do
Oh-oh-oh
I was asleep at the wheel
Then I ran into you
Thursday evening
Corner bookstore
You laughed at something
I missed before
Rain on the window
Neon in your hair
For the first time in forever
I actually cared
About tomorrow
About weekends
About places I could go
Without feeling alone
You say
"It's getting late"
I say
"Yeah probably"
But neither of us move
Exit seventeen
Never noticed it before
Exit seventeen
Now I'm slowing down for sure
Funny how a stranger
Can rewrite a route
I spent months getting nowhere
Then I ran into you
I wasn't searching
Wasn't trying
Wasn't healing
Wasn't hiding
Just another midnight
Just another drive
Then suddenly the dashboard lights
Look alive
Funny how the smallest things
Can restart a heart
A different road
A different laugh
A different start
Exit seventeen
Never noticed it before
Exit seventeen
Now I'm turning toward the shore
Maybe this is nothing
Maybe this is new
But I spent months getting nowhere
Then I ran into you
Exit seventeen
Exit seventeen
Funny how the world starts moving
When you do
Left turn
Exit seventeen
