Beachtown

You’d always take the backroads

Straight shot two lanes where the trees all look the same

Dying to escape the deafening roar of the rumbling city trains

Beachtown bound in May

And every time

That your world got strange

You’d exit through your bedroom window

Your dad's keys in your hands

You’d find that old black car

And speed off into the saline dark

Burnin’ your tires

Runnin’ the lights like nothin'

While you’re ridin’ around your beach town every night

While you question your life

Will it amount up to something?

When will ya learn it’s a long slow burning fight?

You always fought me on this

But I can’t bear watching it

When I reach out my hand you just slap it away again

Must I remind you? I’m trying to help

And pull you out of your shell

Pull you out of yourself

But every time

That the autumn came

The exodus would leave you lonely

And then the winter rain

Would shut you in for days

I got a call in the night

They found that old black car by the inlet

They said you left no trace

Nobody knew where ya’d gone

But I knew it wouldn’t be long

'Til you’d keep

Burnin’ your tires

Runnin’ the lights like nothing

While you’re ridin’ around your beach town every night

While you question your life

Will it amount up to something?

When will ya learn it’s a long slow burning fight?

When will you learn it’s a long slow burn?