My life should have been a car ride
in the passenger's seat you can watch
memories pass by like streetlights
glowing amber through the morning mist
obscuring distant damaged dreams
reach out to my sundered soul

Hope with each new destination
holding flawless futures in my hands
free from the burden of decisions
taken away by constant joy
now lost along the highway
stretching painfully into the past

Let the music wash desperately
over the present
emptiness on the asphalt river
flowing through me like ashes
dying amidst withered fires
blown out by summer's phantoms

For you I gladly took the steering wheel
stirring restlessly at my touch
my hand slips from your dry face
unwatered by love or regrets
evaporating into desperate prayers
whispered to an empty passenger's seat