Death Cab For Cutie - Rand McNally lyrics

A Rand McNally atlas, cheap coffee stained
Now, I wouldn't know how to use
One with my life at stake
You were waiting on a payphone at
A truck stop in Houston
Trying to call your mother
’cause she's a worrier
A handful of twenties in your overcoat
Always rolled into a pillow
On some stranger's floor
And you tell these stories with happy endings
Only when interrupted before they’re over

But I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
Chasing these roads into dawns
I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
Falling asleep in their arms

It seemed these highways were never-ending
Circling odds and evens
The numbers ascending and
Searching through static on
The Wyoming plains
We danced to both kinds of music
As the old joke claims
And I wanted for nothing, I couldn't rent
We lived on whiskey and Twizzlers
And youth's discontent
With this Rand McNally atlas
Dog-eared and frayed
Like Old Testament verses that don't
Make sense in this decade

Don’t let the light fade
I won’t let the light fade
Chasing these roads into dawns
I won't let the light fade
I won’t let the light fade
Falling asleep in their arms
But I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
Chasing these roads into dawns

And I'm holding on holding on

I won’t let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade
I won't let the light fade