Lyrics: Miles Kane
Music: Miles Kane
Half-tank
Two-lane
Sun sinking down like an old refrain
Coffee in a stained steel cup
Dashboard cracked
But it’s held me up
Wind talks low through a busted vent
Same old song
Different accident
These days I drive more slow than hard
Count my losses like they’re playing cards
Somewhere past mile marker 49
I made peace with what I’m leaving behind
Not a victory lap
Just a quieter mind
On this open road
With less to prove this time
Yeah
Somewhere past mile marker 49
Photo of the kids in the visor flap
Grins full of braces
Baseball caps
Her last note folded in the glove
Few hard words
But it ends with love
Used to race the dark just to feel alive
Now I pull off
Watch the swallows dive
Let the day lay down on my back and knees
Let the years roll by like distant trees
Somewhere past mile marker 49
I made peace with what I’m leaving behind
Not a victory lap
Just a quieter mind
On this open road
With less to prove this time
Yeah
Somewhere past mile marker 49
I’m not chasing some bright horizon
Just keeping this old wheel steady in my hands
There’s a beauty in the rust and the rising
In learning how to live with what still stands
Somewhere past mile marker 49
I forgave that younger man in my mind
Not a perfect life
Just a truer kind
On this open road
Where the past falls out of line
Yeah
Somewhere past mile marker 49