Driving Sans Headlights

Second original song (posted, anyway) by...me, Aly Noble. Yes, I really did just reveal my secret identity.
Will I change my alias after this? Probably not.


Your resonating cries
Of disproved alibis,
They echo through the night
And wrap themselves in lies

Alone within the dark
Confines of the car
The world turns black and gray
Down to the final star

In all that we have left
We are cold and bereft
Within our chilling shells
That stiffen with each breath

When all is said and done,
And all is lost and won,
Will you remember me
(And all things we’ve begun?)

We’ve lost all that is right
We lost it all that night,
In the absence of the light,
We drove without headlights
I cowered down in fear,
Make this disappear,
We lost it all that night
Driving sans headlights

Pardon me, but I
Must say what’s on my mind,
I’m not sure this is real,
Could we have really died?

And though you shake your head
And comfort me instead,
I know them as the lies
Your fading echoes said

Yet still I move in close,
Two angels in repose,
Just please remember me
(Wherever we may go)

We’ve lost all that is right
We lost it all that night,
In the absence of the light,
We drove without headlights
I cowered down in fear,
Make this disappear,
We lost it all that night
Driving sans headlights

Now that I’m buried deep
Like long-stowed memories,
I still just wonder why
I didn’t take the keys.