Exile

I left before the sun could rise

City still asleep behind my eyes

Engine running like a wounded heart

Did not know where to begin or start

No goodbye and no last call

Just the echo of it all

Every street I used to know

Turned to somewhere I could not go

My name fading in the rearview glass

Watching every memory pass

Hands then shaking on the wheel

Wondering if this was real

I became a ghost without a grave

Someone nobody could save

Every mile erased my face

Every breath a different place

Exile living in my bones

Everywhere but never home

Every door closed in my mind

Left the world I knew behind

My name fading in the rearview glass

Watching every memory pass

Hands then shaking on the wheel

Wondering if this was real

I heard voices in the wind

Asking where I had been

I had nowhere left to say

I just drove the pain away

Night was all I had to trust

Turning dreams into dust

Stars above like distant fires

Burning down my old desires

Exile carved into my skin

Punishment for every sin

Even if I turned around

Nothing lost could now be found

I stopped somewhere no one knew

Sky was black and empty too

I asked myself who are you now

Silence was the only sound

Exile was the only truth

No more lies and no more proof