The long stretch of highway ahead

The sun beaming through my windshield

I pass all of these cars

Full of people I’ll never meet

I guess growing up in a small town

I could never understand how big the world really is

How many people love the same songs as me

How many people feel deeply like I do

How every single one of these cars

Has someone in it that’s lost in their own thoughts

Maybe turning the music up to drown them out like I am

Or maybe they’re singing with their best friend

Or just married

Or finally escaping their own small town

And these highway thoughts

Both terrify me,

And excite