In My Passenger Seat

oh, sweet darling
it's so hard to cope with you not here
i need to go, it's hard to exist
please know i can't live—
one more day you go unfound
it's the first time you're not around
when the lights go out, i'll be waiting
for you, back at my old town
i beg for nights to hear the sound
of your voice keeping me sane, and so—
i talk to myself when i'm driving
you're still in the passenger seat
the ghost of you's still thriving
so alive but incomplete
so when i get home
will you reside in my arms and fall asleep?
or will i wake up to your alarm
ringing out of reach?
i still see your face
each time i play our little song
so i'll stay in the same place
and maybe time will fade the pain you left behind
your missing smile keeps me awake
it feeds the ache
and i don't know quite where to go
when you're not here
so i'll just wait for you, my dear
i walk past the spots we knew,
the diner lights still shine for two
but i won't make my plate 'til i'm with you
at least for one more night,
i don't know what the hell's in sight for me,
once i've completely lost my mind
from all this time we've spent apart
my darling, please just come back home
i'll wait alone
'til your heartbeat and mine can reunite so—
why is it so hard to find our love
if it's how we first met?
i talk to myself when i'm driving
you're still in the passenger seat
i talk to myself when i'm driving
you're still in the passenger seat
the ghost of you's still thriving
so alive but incomplete
so when i get home
will you reside in my arms and fall asleep?
or will i wake up to your alarm
ringing out of reach?
and think of you...
i light a smoke and think of you
oh, the way you smiled
the things we knew
but maybe love's just passing through