Cross Country
Journey of Love and Loss: Road-Tripping Through Heartbreak
Lyrics
I try to find my mind I drive
Searching for clarity and self-awareness while driving.
High ways, Sun's rays, my days, the time
Reflecting on life, time, and personal experiences.
My life, my lines, my lies, my likes
Examining one's own life, choices, falsehoods, and preferences.
All gone, all wrong, so long, no fight
Expressing a sense of loss, regret, and resignation.
I'm passing passively, I'm pushing right past my patience
Passing through life without active engagement, testing one's patience.
Flipped through AM and then FM, I can't find a station
Struggling to find emotional resonance through radio channels.
Two dogs, two lanes, but I got all this baggage
Carrying emotional baggage while navigating life's paths.
One House, two lives cut to short passage
Reflecting on a short-lived shared existence and its impact.
Picking playlists that won't create reminders
Avoiding reminders of the past through carefully chosen playlists.
So I'm driving on most the time I sit in silence
Choosing silence as a coping mechanism while driving.
Wooden anniversary that shit is come and gone
Acknowledging the passing of time in a relationship.
I made it four years I guess that five was just too long
Reflecting on the end of a relationship and its duration.
Cause I love you
Expressing mutual love and understanding that the relationship wasn't meant to last.
And you love me
-We both knew it
-Wasn't meant to be
-I'm road-tripping with your ghost riding shotgun
Describing a lonely road trip, haunted by memories and emotional pain.
Sunflower seeds in the console; I pop some
-I feel the shrapnel in my heart like I'm Tony Stark
-Texas highways are awful lonely in the dark
-There's nothing here but yellow lines and these flags flying
-The sound of tires on the asphalt, my quiet crying
-If bliss is any emotion that I got fully felt
Exploring emotions and memories after a year of separation.
Then I'll surrender to this pain and let my fear melt
-It's one year passed but that memory's in place
-Temporary reprieve but now I can't escape
-Pictures flooding in from every corner of my phone
Struggling with the aftermath of the breakup, grappling with memories and reality.
And when I see us with our friends, that's when I feel alone
-I don't know what I gave up vs left behind,
-It's hard to parse reality from stories in my mind
-I'm proud of how it ended and it all got handled
-I just can't accept my whole life got dismantled
-Cause I love you
Reiterating the mutual acknowledgment that the relationship wasn't meant to endure.
And you love me
-We both knew it
-Wasn't meant to be
-I'm road-tripping with your ghost riding shotgun
Continuing the lonely road trip, dealing with emotional pain.
Sunflower seeds in the console, I pop some
-I feel the shrapnel in my heart, like I'm Tony Stark
-Texas highways, that shit is lonely in the dark
-There's nothing here but yellow lines are all these flags flying
-The sound of tires on the asphalt, my quiet crying
-If bliss is any emotion that I got fully felt
Surrendering to the pain and the emotional journey.
I'll surrender to this pain and let my fear melt
-This is a true story about two people choosing happiness over permanence.
Providing context for the narrative, emphasizing the beauty and pain of the story.
It's the most beautiful story I've ever written, which is why it hurts the most.
-Life is too short to waste it, wondering whether or not you should leave.
Encouraging a focus on the present and the pursuit of happiness over permanence.
Especially because leaving might be the most generous thing that you can do.
-Be Here Now
Reassuring that, no matter the outcome, everything will be okay.
Be with your person
-No matter what happens
-It'll be OK
-It'll be OK
-I know it may not seem like it now
-It'll be OK
Repeating the reassurance that, despite current challenges, things will be okay.
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