Lights Out	
words & music by Rick Watson, Hog Branch Publishing
DEMO ONLY. 
2024 Austin Songwriting Group. Prompt: Lights Out
February 1, 2024

Lyrics

Lights out tonight
My heart’s pumping double
Full moon picks a fight
Each shadow spells trouble
The wind’s howling Run, boy
Though I only stumble
My love dreams beside me
I’ll soon burst that bubble
Lights out

Black clouds roll in
Horned owl is screeching
My face in the window
The highway beseeching
Screen door recoils
Ignition, I’m leaving
God’s voice in the static
But hate’s all he preaching
Lights out

Rest would come with just one swerve
Lights out for good on dead man’s curve
That peace costs more than you deserve
Or maybe baby I just lost my nerve
Lights out

Blue highway glows
It’s nothing I’m chasing
Despair is exhausting
Fatigue I’m embracing
The causeway – last exit
The rearview I’m gazing
The horizon’s a rose
The night it’s erasing
Lights out
I’m coming home
Lights out
I’m coming home
Lights out

Lights Out

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