Over The Past

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(Verse 1)
Cold concrete underneath my boots
The highway hums, pulling up old roots
The river bend as a silver knife
Cutting through the static of a faded life
Rust in the air, winter on the breeze
The streetlights flicker through the skeleton trees
I look down where the black water slides
Counting the ghosts that the surface hides.

(Chorus)
And the current moves, indifferent and slow
Washing away everything we used to know
Your summer laugh, the way you held my hand
Built like a castle on the sinking sand
Let it drift, let it go, far away
Deep in the dark where the cold currents flow.

(Verse 2)
I remember the heat of that July night
Your shadow smiling  in the dashboard light
We had a spark, or so I chose to think
Before the night  started to sink
Now I’m standing where the state lines blur
Just a witness to the ghost of who we were
The water doesn't care about the promises made
It only tracks the hours as the colors fade.

(Chorus)
And the current moves, indifferent and slow
Washing away everything we used to know
Your summer laugh, the way you held my hand
Built like a castle on the sinking sand
Let it drift, let it go, far away
Deep in the dark where the cold currents flow.

(Bridge)
The weight in my chest is starting to crack
There is no road that can take us back
The water takes the memory, the water takes the blame
It washes out the letters of your name...
It washes them out... Away...

The river runs clean,
The static goes dead,
No more noise inside my head,
The water carries the weight away,
Nothing left for me to say.
Just the river.
Just the quiet.
Finally... quiet.