One Night In The Valley

Midnight on Ventura, headlights glowing low
I was chasing ghosts down roads I used to know
Tux still wrinkled, heart still young
Standing outside her door, scared to say what I’d become

But it all came back in flashes and heat
Like a mixtape spinning under city street
She looked like a dream I once let go
And in her eyes, I saw the me I used to know
We were dancing on borrowed time
One night in the valley, frozen in neon light

I’d spent years in reverse, trying not to crash
Clutching a future I buried in the past
But she laughed like summer, like we never changed
And I felt something real ignite in my veins

Yeah it all came back in flashes and heat
Like a mixtape spinning under city street
We were more than a memory on repeat
Two hearts burning under backseat dreams
We were dancing on borrowed time
One night in the valley, frozen in neon light

They say you can’t go back
But sometimes, you don’t have to
You just have to show up

So it all came back, that reckless high
That feeling you could live a whole life in one night
And maybe we were fools, or maybe we were right
But I found myself again
In the valley, under neon skies

One night
One chance
Take me home
Tonight