(Immediate guitar riff drums in from bar one)
Quarter past two on the northern road
Rain writing lines on the glass
The radio fades between the towns
But we're still moving fast
There's a service light ten miles behind
And another one up ahead
You said if we stop for too long tonight
We'll start believing what they said
That maybe this is all too late
Maybe we missed our turn
I put both hands back on the wheel
And watched another mile-marker burn
No green light waiting
No hand from above
Just the engine running
And enough road left for us
Keep the wheels awake
Keep the wheels awake
If the night wants everything
Let it come and take its place
Keep the wheels awake
Till the black gives way to grey
We don't need the whole horizon
Just another mile today
If we're wrong
We'll know it later
If we're lost
We'll find a way
For now
Keep the wheels awake
We passed the town where I nearly stayed
For a job I couldn't stand
Passed the bridge where you threw your coat
In the river on a dare
Every sign keeps naming somewhere
We have never called our own
Funny how a road can feel more honest
Than a room that felt like home
The fuel light came on somewhere west
You laughed and turned it red
Said we've survived on less than this
And worse ideas inside our heads
No applause coming
No promise to save
Just the tyres humming
Like a song we haven't made
Keep the wheels awake
Keep the wheels awake
If the night wants everything
Let it come and take its place
Keep the wheels awake
Till the black gives way to grey
We don't need the whole horizon
Just another mile today
If we're wrong
We'll know it later
If we're lost
We'll find a way
For now
Keep the wheels awake
(8 bars —guitar riff develops over driving bass)
Maybe there is no big moment
No door that opens wide
Maybe change is just the distance
Growing quietly behind
Maybe courage sounds like tyres
On an empty motorway
And two fools with no good reason
Still refusing to turn away
Keep it moving
Don't look back yet
Not tonight
Not yet
Keep the wheels awake
Keep the wheels awake
There's a line of pale blue morning
Breaking underneath the grey
Keep the wheels awake
We've got nothing left to fake
Every mile we thought would break us
Put another road in place
If we're wrong
We'll know it later
If we're lost
We'll lose our way
And find another
Keep the wheels awake
Keep the wheels awake
Keep the wheels awake
No map
No guarantee
But we're still moving anyway
The radio comes back to life
Sunlight on the motorway
You turn it up
I drive
