I got caught staring out the window
Wishing I was somewhere else to find the feeling
That I lost so long ago
Can you tell me
Where do you go when you left home?
Thinking that you figured it all
Now you’re here
Looking at the dust that you let build up on the shelf
Of your quiet soul
Will you quietly go for real?
[Chorus]
It’s your soul screaming out
Do you hear it?
Are you listening to where the wind blows?
Follow the voice calling from the road
Listen to the stars at night as they guide you so far from home
Let’s find out where these lines go
She called me Kerouac
Well I fell in love but she didn’t fall back
And I got burned
But I guess that’s a lesson that can only be learned when you’re living
I climbed the highest heights where I saw for miles
Met a couple of Kiwis how are friends for life
After all this driving for miles and miles
For the first time in the longest time
I felt alive
We were sitting on your front porch
With a point of view
Believing the lies that we told ourselves
But we know aren’t true
And we talked, we talked
On the most sobering thought
It’d be a god damn shame if you gave this up
[Chorus]
credits
from Spin Cycle,
released March 19, 2018
Written by Chris Heine and David Velandia
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