[Verse 1 - Jamie] Back row lights and a washed-out screen Every town in between Felt smaller when we drove through Like it shrank behind you We kept quiet, kept moving fast Didn’t care what we left in the past Every mile just blurred the view Till there was nothing left to lose [Pre-Chorus - Jamie] They called it running We called it finally breathing [Chorus - Quinn + Spence tone] From the cheap seats, everything looks cinematic Streetlights flicker like automatic Heaven doesn’t know our names But the skyline still takes shape Jamie + Quinn: Exit signs glowing like a promise we can’t keep Every mile puts the silence to sleep We don’t know what this means But it feels like something breaking clean [Verse 2 - Jamie] Dashboard glow and a half-tanked gauge Every night another stage We were ghosts in the afterlight Not growing rewrite- ing They said we’d miss the way it was But distance made it obvious Nothing back there pulled us through Just the things we outgrew [Pre-Chorus - Jamie] Every mile rewrites the past Every line keeps fading [Chorus - Quinn] From the cheap seats, everything looks cinematic Streetlights flicker automatic Every doubt falls out of frame Every mile erases names Jamie + Quinn: Exit signs cutting through the dark Like a flare or a spark We don’t know what this means But it feels like something finally free [Bridge - Spence-coded theatrical] Quinn (soft falsetto): We don’t belong to where we started Jamie (low): We don’t fit the same design Quinn (rising): Every road rewrites the ending NOTHING BACK THERE WORTH DEFENDING [Final Chorus - Full] From the cheap seats, everything looks cinematic All the damage less dramatic Every small town out of view Everything we outgrew Exit signs burning white In the rearview tonight We don’t know where this leads But it finally feels like release