One night we lay beside each other
So close to a sweat
With two fans circling overhead
We sleep on borrowed time

And the traffic lights direct empty roads
The stars can't break the city sky
But they still try
Despite what they know is already true

And tomorrow we'll take aim
Just like a storm waiting for a calm
I can feel everything coming in my chest
My heart's already pounding

My head's on far-off highways, sixteen years old
On a road that never ends
Might drive into something that looks like a sunset
And it lasts forever and I never look back

From Hoboken to L.A
From Portland to Gainesville
From the great plains to Niagara
Route 66 straight to California

Electric lights carry the night
We move in 4/4 time
Our feet on wheels and in the sky
Yes we're going, cause we'd die if we stayed here
And those dying dreams will carry what's good and real and pure
And the rest can burn in hell

And for the four-year-old girl found dead in a dumpster
Shot by her mother
Her eulogy's the sound of construction through head-to-head traffic
Today is just another day

And me and my friends are just growing into the drunks
And the liars that we've always hated
Every shortcoming has trapped us
Every mistake is now our own infinite failure

So we steal every chance we get
Every advantage is taken when no one's looking
We hide behind closed doors and we don't stop until
We are the people we've decided we should be

I wanna be a shot heard round the world, fucking unstoppable
This distance is not something we'll regret
From here, and now, and today, and forever
And days after that till the very end

From Hoboken to L.A
From Portland to Gainesville
From the great plains to Niagara
Route 66 straight to California
Electric lights carry the night
We move in 4/4 time
Our feet on wheels and in the sky
Yes we're going, cause we'd die if we stayed here

And those dying dreams will carry what's good and real and pure
And the rest can burn in hell
And the rest can burn in hell