Exit Seventeen

Exit Seventeen
Exit Seventeen

Storm beating on the diner windows
Coffee cup chipped on the side
We have planned the next six months
Like love is safer in a spreadsheet line
You ask where this is going
I ask what answer you'd trust
Then lightning takes the parking-lot lights
And the whole place laughs at us

Exit Seventeen, rain on the glass
Exit Seventeen, let the future drive past
The wrong turn got us farther than the plan ever did
Exit Seventeen, stay right here a bit

Car will not start after midnight
Rain runs cold under the hood
We sit back down in booth eleven
Because pretending leaves us no good
You say you're scared I'll leave
I say I'm scared I'll stay wrong
First honest thing all evening
Does more than every plan we wrote

Maybe certainty isn't
What keeps two people close

Exit Seventeen, rain on the glass
Exit Seventeen, let the future drive past
The wrong turn got us farther than the plan ever did
Exit Seventeen, stay right here a bit

The car would not start
The storm would not move
That chipped coffee mug kept one warm ring on the booth
The wrong turn got us farther than the plan ever did
We didn't find certainty, we found the truth

Exit Seventeen, coffee gone cold
Exit Seventeen, no map to hold
We stopped asking forever to prove what tonight already did
Exit Seventeen, I'm good with this

Exit Seventeen