That Inexplicable Light
A memory that feels almost borrowed: a little black car on a dark road between cornfields, her laughing beside me, and a strange light out on the plains that we never did explain. Some moments stay with you because they don't make sense.
I've got a memory that I don't think is mine
A little black car that could travel through time
With leather bucket seats and an engine that screamed
And a perfect night that I must have just dreamed
Out on a dark road, between the fields of corn
A moment of magic was quietly born
And your laughter was a melody against the engine's roar
As I pushed it even faster than I'd ever gone before
And we were driving, driving, driving to an inexplicable light
A lighthouse on the plains in the middle of the night
And we were living, living, living on a single, stolen breath
A beautiful illusion, cheating time and cheating death
It might not have been real, it might not have been true
But for a moment I was perfect, and I was there with you
It was a terrible car that would always break down
I was the king of nowhere in a dead-end town
You had your own life, and I had my own cage
We were just two actors on a different stage
But sometimes in the quiet, when my own world disappears
I can hear that engine screaming in my ears
And your laughter is a ghost that I can almost touch
Did it mean nothing, or did it mean too much?
And we were driving, driving, driving to an inexplicable light
A lighthouse on the plains in the middle of the night
And we were living, living, living on a single, stolen breath
A beautiful illusion, cheating time and cheating death
It might not have been real, it might not have been true
But for a moment I was perfect, and I was there with you
That inexplicable light
Shining in the night
Maybe it was real
Just for a moment
I could feel
I could feel