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COUNTY LINE lyrics
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Intro
County line, county line
Verse 1
Used to leave your place at two, three in the morning SunPass beeping, I-95 was all ours Windows cracked, your voice note playing on the aux Wawa coffee on the dash, your lip gloss on my collar Drove from Miramar to Wynwood just to hold your hand at dinner Gas was four-nineteen a gallon but I never checked twice We'd sit in the Wendy's lot past midnight talking about apartments we could never afford You'd fall asleep mid-sentence, phone still on your cheek I'd wait till I heard you breathing steady, then I'd hang up
Pre-chorus
And I keep saying I'm coming I keep sending the pin But the distance don't shrink when you just sending texts again
Chorus
We good, we just tired County line keep gettin' wider Love ain't broken, no, we ain't fighting It's the miles, it's the timing We good, we just tired County line keep gettin' wider
Verse 2
Now you live past Sawgrass, I'm still off 441 Your shift end at eleven, mine don't start till one We overlap for maybe forty minutes if the traffic's kind Half of that is catching up on what we already missed Turnpike toll hit twenty-seven dollars last month I counted, showed you the receipt like it was evidence You laughed, said "that's a light bill" I didn't laugh back Saturday plans turn into Sunday apologies Rain on the Palmetto, forty in a sixty, hazards blinking
Pre-chorus
And I keep saying I'm coming I keep sending the pin But the tank don't fill itself when the check already thin
Chorus
We good, we just tired County line keep gettin' wider Love ain't broken, no, we ain't fighting It's the miles, it's the timing We good, we just tired County line keep gettin' wider
Verse 3
Your mama need you Sundays, my folks want me home for dinner We pencil each other in like dentist appointments Three missed calls feel like three whole months You stop explaining me to your cousins I stop bringing you up at work We both still in it, I think But we describing us different now You say "complicated," I say "close" Neither one of us is lying, that's the part that hurts
Bridge
I just want to sit in your car and not go nowhere Play something slow and let the A/C run Not talk about when, not plan around shifts Just breathe next to you without a clock on it
Verse 4
We ran numbers on a place in Davie Rent plus electric plus the fact we both got student loans Plus you need your space, plus I snore, plus your cat hates me It's not that we don't want it, want just don't pay deposits Love don't split utilities Love don't fix the schedule But love the only reason I still set that GPS
Verse 5
So tell me straight, no "let's see how it goes" Are we building something or just refusing to quit? 'Cause I'll move, I'll switch the shift, I'll sell the car But I won't keep driving halfway just to park on your street and pretend that's enough If we real then let's be real all the way Not county line real, not SunPass real Mattress-on-the-floor, split-the-groceries, same-zip-code real
Chorus
We good, we just tired County line keep gettin' wider Love ain't broken, no, we ain't fighting It's the miles, it's the timing We good, nah, we more than good County line can't hold what we could
Outro
County line, county line I'm already on my way
Inside the recording
County line, county line
And I keep saying I'm coming I keep sending the pin
County line, county line I'm already on my way
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