The Dashboard Archive

[Intro]
[Verse]
Dusty shelf in the corner light
Cardboard box tucked out of sight
Plastic cracks beneath my thumb
Counting years until I'm numb
Silver discs in a jagged stack
Wishing I could track them back
[Pre-Chorus]
Sharpie ink is fading gray
Names of bands from yesterday
Smudge across the plastic sleeve
Harder now to just believe
[Chorus]
We were screaming out the windows
Driving fast where the wind blows
Every harmony we missed
Songs I didn't know exist
I never said it meant the world
Before the flags were all unfurled
Just a soundtrack to the drive
Keeping all the ghosts alive
[Verse]
French fry grease on a paper fold
Stories that we never told
Summer heat in a rusted door
I don't find them like this anymore
Volume knob turned way too high
Underneath a suburban sky
[Pre-Chorus]
Smell of salt and ancient fries
Catching me by deep surprise
Handwriting I used to know
From a life lived long ago
[Chorus]
We were screaming out the windows
Driving fast where the wind blows
Every harmony we missed
Songs I didn't know exist
I never said it meant the world
Before the flags were all unfurled
Just a soundtrack to the drive
Keeping all the ghosts alive
[Bridge]
Thirty-two feels like a wall
Watching all the shadows fall
I’m talking to an empty chair
Hoping that you’re somewhere there
To hear the things I kept inside
On every single midnight ride
[Breakdown]
It is one AM
In this quiet room
I am reaching out
Through the velvet gloom
[Chorus]
We were screaming out the windows
Driving fast where the wind blows
Every harmony we missed
Songs I didn't know exist
I never said it meant the world
Before the flags were all unfurled
Just a soundtrack to the drive
Keeping all the ghosts alive
[Outro]