One, two, three, four

Near the old folk's home past Page Street and Ash

That patch of woods next to the pink laundromat

The things you learn in middle school

you don't learn in class

Stole some weed from your uncle, so we hopped the fence

By the Section 8 housing, back when we were best friends

You saw a brick wall, I found a path

The smell of summer water with nowhere to go

Hanging like vampires under the road

You said, "You can't get out the same way you came in"

Fifteen, you're a kid, sixteen, it changеs

Those walls could've caved in any sеcond for all that I knew

So I held my breath, said a prayer, and kept running

'Til the shape of the end took the afternoon sun in

I don't know how it works or how

God picks who gets to get through

It just seems like a lot of life's

been mostly the tunnel for you

Your dad sat on an upside-down bucket

in the garage watching westerns

With the sound turned down, a cold beer in his left hand

Your mother called him in for dinner, then ate alone

And no one asks where you're going or asks how you've been

And you're covered in tattoos, just under the skin

But you're wearing those long sleeves, so nobody knows

I bet the road heading South is somebody's North

Just like somebody's darkness is somebody's torch

But you can't get out the same way you came in

Still think like a kid when everything changes

Those walls could've caved in any

second and blacked out the blue

And I wanted to save you but I just did nothing

Prayed the shape of the end takes the afternoon sun in

I don't know how it works or how

God picks who gets to get through

It just seems like a lot of life's

been mostly the tunnel for you

(Mostly the tunnel)

There's a light at the end

A light at the end, keep on running

There's a light at the end

And I promise, my friend, it's coming

There's a light at the end

There's a light at the end

There's a light at the end

There's a light at the end

A light at the end

A light at the end