I worked doubles for a year and a half
Counting every tip, every overtime laugh
Just to afford that little silver band
Hidden in velvet in the pocket of my hand
I practiced the words in the mirror each night
Will you let me love you for the rest of my life?
Street lights were gold, sky dripping slow rain
I was ten minutes away from forever,
then my phone rang
Now I'm holding this ring like a cigarette burn
Watching the dollars drown while the world still turns
I never got to see it catch the light in your
eyes You left before I could ask you to be mine
Velvet box in my fist, ah Put the question back
With you
on the 405
Oh,
oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh
They said it happened fast,
you never felt pain Red lights you trusted,
decided to change
I still drive that road when I can't fall asleep
Play a song on repeat,
let the red lights keep me
Stuck in the moment, I lost everything
Funny how four carats can't stop suffering
I talk to the silence where your laugh used to be
It never answers but it still sounds like you to me
And I'm holding this ring like a loaded gun
Pointed at memories I can't outrun I never
got to see it catch the light in your eyes
You left before I could ask you to be mine Velvet box in my face
But the future died
With you on the 405
I keep it on the dash like a rear-view
ghost A tiny circle that hurts the most
Sometimes I open it when the night gets
thin Whisper yes for you then close it again
If love was enough you'd still be here
But love can't outrun 18 wheels and tears
So I'm holding this ring like the last breath
I took The night that tomorrow turned into
a closed book I never got to see it catch the light in your
eyes You'll never know I was ready to make you
mine Velvet box on the grave
Where I laid down my life I still drive home slow
Pass the 405
I was turning into a I was turning into a