The Last Mile

There's a light behind me now that isn't going away.

Verse 1 Headlights filling up the mirror like a flood Tank on empty, hand still tacky with the blood One mile of fence between me and the line A line that doesn't mean a thing but I still call it mine I'm not running from the law now, that's the joke I'm running from a kitchen and a thing I never spoke Every mile I drove was a mile I drove from her And the last one's coming up and I still don't know what I prefer

Pre-Chorus One mile left One tank of none One thing to choose Before it's done

Chorus This is the last mile, the last mile The part of the road where you drop the disguise No more crew, no more map, no more lie The last mile is just a man and the truth at sixty-five

Verse 2 There's a turnoff coming, dirt, no sign, no name Leads to nothing, leads away from the game Or I hold the wheel straight into the blue And let the road do the one thing roads always do I think about her coffee set for one I think about a brother and the thing that can't be undone The wheel goes light, my hands have made the call Before my head could ruin it the way it ruins all

Pre-Chorus One mile left One tank of none One thing to choose Before it's done

Chorus This is the last mile, the last mile The part of the road where you drop the disguise No more crew, no more map, no more lie The last mile is just a man and the truth at sixty-five

Bridge You spend your whole life deciding who you are in rooms with the lights on. Turns out you decide it here, in the dark, in one mile, with no one watching and nothing left to gain by lying. This is the last mile, the last mile The part of the road where you drop the disguise No more crew, no more map, no more lie The last mile is just a man and the truth at sixty-five

Outro And the truth at sixty-five

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