Open country by Hollow Atlas
[Verse 1]
I drove until the city thinned to fields
Pulled over somewhere with no name I know
Just flat land and a sky that had no ceiling
And air that didn't know what I'd been through
I sat on the bonnet until my hands stopped shaking
Watched a bird do something with the wind
I thought — I have been so inside that story
I forgot the world kept spinning at the rim
[Pre-Chorus]
No coordinates
No longitude
No map to fold
No atlas left to hold
Just open ground
Just open sky
Just me still here
Still wondering why
Still here
[Chorus]
Open country
I forgot that this existed
Open country
All this space I had resisted
Every road that doesn't lead back to what we were
Every field that doesn't know my name
Open country
I am unmapped and uncertain
But the light is doing something with the plain
Open country
And I think I'm going to be okay
[Verse 2]
I called my mother from a roadside gate
She said just come home the way that mothers do
I laughed at something — couldn't tell you what now
But it came up easy, came up true
I thought about the cities that we'd built there
The latitude, the signals, all of it
And I held it like you'd hold a finished chapter
Something real that reaches its limit
[Pre-Chorus]
No coordinates
No longitude
No map to fold
No atlas left to hold
Just open ground
Just open sky
Just me still here
Still wondering why
Still here
[Chorus]
Open country
I forgot that this existed
Open country
All this space I had resisted
Every road that doesn't lead back to what we were
Every field that doesn't know my name
Open country
I am unmapped and uncertain
But the light is doing something with the plain
Open country
And I think I'm going to be okay
[Bridge]
I won't say it was nothing
I won't say I'm glad
I won't reduce it to a lesson
Or pretend it wasn't everything I had
But I'm standing in this field now
And the field doesn't need me to explain
And somewhere in the distance
There's a version of me
Learning my own name
Learning my own name
Learning my own name
[Chorus]
Open country
I forgot that this existed
Open country
All this space I had resisted
Every road that doesn't lead back to what we were
Every field that doesn't know my name
Open country
I am unmapped and uncertain
But the light is doing something with the plain
Open country
And I think I'm going to be okay
I think I'm going to be okay
[Outro]
