Those Distant Lights

if you say yes, we could leave,
we could go. we’d be gone.
we could get there in time to see the dawn.
come on. i don’t need to sleep.
i’ll keep driving all night long.
i know there’s something to see.
i hear it calling to me every night now,
with an anxious sound that makes my blood pound.
as we drive down, what were names on a map will gather
all around, waiting to be found.
if you say yes, we could leave,
we could go. we won’t know what awaits us in those
distant lights unless you say yes,
so say yes, because now our only fear should be what
happens if we just stay here.
so pick the road that we’ll take.
I’ve got this deep steady ache running through me.
I want to breathe the air outside of this town.
as we drive down, what were names on a map will gather
all around, waiting to be