FireEscape

Pack what you can carry, leave the rest behind

I'll be at your window when the streetlights die

We've been talking 'bout this since we were seventeen

Two kids with a gas tank and a half-baked dream

Your mother's still asleep, your father works till three

There's a world outside this town that's waiting patiently

I know you're scared — hell, I'm terrified

But I'd rather be afraid with you than safe here on my own

So take my hand and don't look back

We'll burn the bridge before they pull us back

They'll say we're crazy, say we're young and dumb

But crazy's just a word for people who don't run

Anywhere the road can take us

Anywhere the sky won't break us

I don't need a plan, I just need your hand

And a full tank headed somewhere we don't understand

Anywhere but here, oh darling

Anywhere the stars are calling

We don't need a map, we don't need a sign

As long as I look across the seat and your eyes meet mine

Remember that November, you said "let's just disappear"

Change our names, change the station, change the atmosphere

Your laughter in the rearview, sunrise bleeding through the glass

This moment's far too fragile — I won't let it turn to ash

I know it's not a fairytale — fairytales don't bleed

But every time you look at me I find the strength I need

This town was built for leaving, the highway knows our names

I'd rather crash and burn with you than play it safe in someone else's game

So take my hand and don't look back

We'll burn the bridge before they pull us back

They'll say we're crazy, say we're young and dumb

But crazy's just a word for people who don't run

Anywhere the road can take us

Anywhere the sky won't break us

I don't need a plan, I just need your hand

And a full tank headed somewhere we don't understand

Anywhere but here, oh darling

Anywhere the stars are calling

We don't need a map, we don't need a sign

As long as I look across the seat and your eyes meet mine

He says "pack light" — I brought my whole life in a Jansport

Mama's necklace, daddy's anger, every lesson I was taught wrong

He sees a highway, I see a tightrope

He dreams in color, I've been drawing in monochrome

But when he says "run" my feet start moving on their own

I never had a home that didn't feel like a loan

So maybe crazy's genetic, maybe freedom's a debt

Maybe running is the closest thing to honest I've ever let myself get

He talks about the sky like it owes him a favor

I'm just trying to be the girl my mother couldn't save

But if the road ends in fire, at least we lit it together

Anywhere the road can take us

Anywhere the sky won't break us

I don't need a plan, I just need your hand

And a full tank headed somewhere we don't understand

Anywhere but here, oh darling

Anywhere the stars are calling

We don't need a map, we don't need a sign

As long as I look across the seat and your eyes meet mine

The city lights get smaller in the rearview mirror now