NYZA ORIGINALS
Ashes in the Rearview
She drives past the apartment building where they met, watching it shrink in her mirror until it's just another blur on a street she'll never return to. The radio plays a song he loved; her hand reaches for the dial but stops halfway, letting it finish anyway—a small, quiet surrender.
Lyrics
Verse 1
You're getting smaller every mile I drive
The city lights behind me start to die
I kept your voice inside a glass jar on my shelf
Tonight I'm finally learning how to let it
Chorus
Ashes in the rearview, that's all that's left
Of the things we promised, of your broken breath
I'm not running faster, I'm just running through
Ashes in the rearview, and I'm letting you
Verse 2
Your sweater's in my passenger seat
I've washed it seven times, it still smells like your skin
I could turn this car around right now
But I know where that leads and I've been there
Chorus
Ashes in the rearview, that's all that's left
Of the photographs and the things unsaid
I'm not running faster, I'm just running through
Ashes in the rearview, and I'm letting you
Bridge
Don't get smaller
Don't turn back
Let the highway take what I can't carry
Don't get smaller
Don't turn back
I'm finally not afraid of empty
Outro
Ashes in the rearview
Ashes in the rearview
And I'm letting go