Fading Strings

The classroom bell is ringing

Just as

I am drifting off to sleep

We are tracking different time zones

And keeping promises

that we promised to keep

I am staring at a pixelated smile

Through a cracked phone screen

While tracing outlines Of a town that

I have never seen

Oh, we’re caught between the borders

Of the morning and the night

Trying to keep a teenage spark alive and burning bright

A thousand miles of highway

Stretching out into the gray But you’re the only voice I need

To wash the dark away

I strum a final chord for you

Across the open air

And send it through the satellite

To find you over there

You’re whispering you love me Through a wave of static sound

While I am looking at the stars Above this lonely town

They thought a simple teenage love

Would wither up and break

But you're the only promise That I never plan to shake

(never plan to shake)