Headlights

When I think about life—my own progress and the way we move forward as a society—it feels like driving on a highway at night. Mile after mile looks the same, and after a while you can even forget you’re moving at all, because all you really see is that narrow cone of headlights. The song is me making peace with that: we don’t get the whole map, we don’t get certainty, we only get what the light allows—and still, the road keeps coming. It’s a reminder to trust the darkness without romanticizing it: to stay open to being surprised even when everything feels repetitive, and to keep going without demanding a meaning that “sits in light.” And there’s something strangely tender in it too—like rolling down the window, feeling that cool, clean air rush in, and realizing you can let the mystery pass through you until you’re not fighting it anymore—you’re part of it.

Lyrics

Headlights

[Verse]
We don’t have to know where this turns
’Cause you only learn the road as the mile returns
Keep your head inside the quiet
Let the dark unspool its verse

[Prechorus]
’Cause it’s all headlights
Just a narrow line
And it feels like
We’re living by and by

[Chorus]
So we drive on
Ride on
We keep rolling through the night
And we won’t stop for a meaning
That refuses to sit in light
We’ll find what we find
When it finds us
But until then
We don’t have to know where this turns
’Cause you only learn the road as the mile returns
Keep your breath behind the glass now
Watch the night fly by in reverse

[Bridge]
The world turns soft in the night
So we hold on, not to win—just to stay alive
And we make it if we listen
To the living as it is
Yeah
The world turns soft in the night
So we hold on, not to win—just to stay alive
And we make it if we listen
And the moon just lets it be

So we drive on
Ride on
We keep rolling through the night
And we won’t stop for a reason
That keeps moving out of sight
We’ll find what we find
When it finds us
But until then

[Outro]
We don’t have to know where this turns
’Cause you only learn the road as the mile returns
Keep your heart behind the glass now
Watch the night fly by in reverse