There’s a car on the road Cutting blackness into halves where it goes Can you see? Through the forest headlights tunnel alone See the shoulder See the ash in the trees See no sleepless creatures standing beside No reflection from an eye thrown back There’s no night here less nocturnal than this Or more black Just the car along the slope of the road And the camera above All watching over Followed behind it Downward with love Where the low beams reach and then die Nothing beyond it No sense of the direction it leads Or of the bends the road will take on the way And every road bends No matter what You can see us where the camera moves in You and I in the back Where I'm leaning over trying to see Past the headrest to whoever’s in front of me And I can see an overpass approach in the night Can’t read the words or where the arrows direct But I can see the headlights bright In the sign underneath That in the mirror I might finally see I wait there for the glow to reflect For the light to connect With the rearview passing under the bridge And in the moment find you sleeping on my shoulder again You’re so peaceful I forget About the fear that I felt About the dark up ahead Of the things we don’t know About who is or isn’t driving the car And the direction we all go About the threat of a bend Because there’s always a bend in the road And the light in ash will fade The night will soon enfold us Let it enfold us As we grow onward Even time itself grows old And we do too We only grow forward Let’s just do it slower Just add to the sum of the world as we go Hour by hour by hour by hour