The Blue Motel Sign

Every October on this rain-slicked road

I watch the same faded beacon glow

Behind the glass, the static hums of old

I never stopped, I just watched the story

unfold

But tonight I turn the key

To the room where we swore we'd be free

Yeah, the blue motel sign still knows our names

Flickering constant through the wind and rain (ooh-ooh)

Inside Room Ten

by the fading light

I touch the wood of the nightstand tight

There's a scratch in the pine

where the dust has cleared

'If we ever get lost,

meet me here'

We had cheap diner mornings,

those fast-lane drives

Storms on the hood

where we risked our lives

You kept coming back,

looking for my face

Waiting for your brother

in our saving place (ahhhh)

Yeah, the blue motel sign

still knows our names

Flickering constant

through the wind and rain

We were just kids

running from the dark

Now I'm holding your key,

keeping the spark Dawn is breaking on the gravel lot I pack

the old photographs we got I'm letting go,

but I keep the key Sleep well,

brother, you're safe with me