im left behind trying to smile at your lonely ghost i guess ill find you in some miles on the open road and i will take you home like a designated driver and hold you until heaven waits to find ya theres probably not too many other people you could simply touch and coat in gold but for me you reconnect the pieces of my broken soul so if last weeks another seven days behind us then i guess i gotta wait until i resonate inside ya i cant wait to be beside ya ill admit it all the pictures that i ve pictured in my mind were just envisioned on the simplest of slides dismissing all the superficial lines that i ve been fishing with the seas got too many fish to cry in but i verified im terrified to make decisions since i learned that michigan is shaped like a mitten and i learned that tanner is a girls name when they were listening to john mayer we were waiting on the world to change its mind i suppose this caged prison isn t mine but is a fixture in which my imagination dies im on a mission to make sense of every plan i paint in fiction till the next plane is landing ill be waiting for you there thinking that chorus i will take you home like a designated driver i will take you home like a designated driver i will take you home as if i was your designated driver and hold on to you close cause eventually ill find you and i will take you home like a designated driver and i will take you home like a designated driver i will take you home as if i was your designated driver and hold on to your bones in case eventually you die before i find you and i will keep your secrets warm like the time we lost ourselves beneath the floorboards it was all raw and it was written on the floor so i will take you home delilah thats where you belong until i will i lift you to the visions i ve enlisted in my summer journal entries that all say i miss you stranger its been centuries we ve both been very well a show and tell of carried mail we lived in our epistles through a love that comes from fairy tales but whatever were given we ve been given without reason and within what im living i ve been living without breathing its a hell like forest fires in a fit since our stations parted hey soul sister your lip stick stained my heart and if you take apart the distance break it into pieces you can see that not everything thats stabbed starts to bleed and so i know i wont be bleeding yeah i know i wont be bleeding as long as you promise me that you wont ever leave me i believe that chorus i will take you home like a designated driver i will take you home like a designated driver i will take you home as if i was your designated driver and hold on to you close cause eventually ill find you and i will take you home like a designated driver and i will take you home like a designated driver i will take you home as if i was your designated driver and hold on to your bones in case eventually you die before i find you outro i hold my breath and i close my eyes and i look to the west where they turn back the time for you i know the dawn of a new day should rise but i wish that new york would just turn back its time for me