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Written by: Ben Haggerty, Joshua Budo Karp, Tyler Andrews, Morae Ruffin Produced by: Budo Mixed By: Jon Castelli Mastered By: Dale Becker
LYRICS: I see a fork in the road I don’t know what path I’m taking But my compass is broke And I don’t know if I’m going to make it Yeee yeeee Told a lot of lies, pushed the love aside Tried to drive away but my hands are tied Never giving up, always stay and fight for me I been driving this road I been driving this road Uh huh, fork in the middle, got two choices to go Give the kids a kiss for me if I don’t make it home When I was growing up, we didn’t have a diagnosis We just kept taking more to get the serotonin Got older and all of my homies overdosing, and therapy Wasn’t an option to process our emotions Mama always said, “What you afraid of, boy?” “Everything’s good, you got angels, boy” “Closed mouths go hungry, better raise your voice” God-sized hole, no replacing the void We create out of chaos, the music is a seance The land that our ancestors’ grave’s on My favorite artists are my two little girls I see freedom first hand in what they make with their crayons The light, it was always on glow When I was lost I was on the right road Tail lights ahead as I drive slow Just a right turn then I find my way home I see a fork in the road I don’t know what path I’m taking But my compass is broke And I don’t know if I’m going to make it Yeee yeeee Told a lot of lies, pushed the love aside Tried to drive away but my hands are tied Never giving up, always stay and fight for me I’ll follow your tail lights To wherever they may lead I’ll follow your tail lights I’ll try and match your speed Virgil said that when you make it to the penthouse It’s your duty to send the elevator back down Somewhere along the highway I got lost And I realized God was ahead of me all along My mind on my business, grind my only mission Most High, the messenger wasn’t quiet enough to listen My time was occupied, when even dining with my children It’s like me, myself, and I, and I lost sight of the vision On borrowed time, living in extra innings Industry survives, I’m glorifying the millions The playlists and the streams, the album bundles and tees But they cannot manufacture what resides in the spirit The Phantom ain’t enough if you don’t remember all of the countless rides in the Civic The moments of failure that proceeded this Not giving a fuck about other people’s perception That’s what freedom is and that’s what I’m going to teach my kids Any moment, peace is available You just gotta remember to breathe it in And finally I can breathe again Anyway, man, I’m going to roll the dice God got the wheel regardless of where I go in life I know tonight, it was always on glow And when I was lost, I was on the right road Tail lights ahead as I drive slow Just a right turn then I find my way home I see a fork in the road I don’t know what path I’m taking But my compass is broke And I don’t know if I’m going to make it Yeee yeeee Told a lot of lies, pushed the love aside Tried to drive away but my hands are tied Never giving up, always stay and fight for me I’ll follow your tail lights To wherever they may lead I’ll follow your tail lights I’ll try and match your speed I don’t use turn signals Windows tinted, got a perfect view World’s ending, I’m going to burn with you Sun going down gotta turn in soon, oh yeah Looking in my rear view glass Learning from the past with a beautiful crash Write my name in the dust on the dash It fades but the memories last Tail lights Tail lights Tail lights
