Rear Window
*Micah Sommersmith
with guest vocalist Hilary Kathryn*

I remember that summer, I was nine years old / I remember that summer, I had just turned ten
Mom and dad said, let’s hit the road / When my mama that said we had to move again
Their jobs weren’t paying them enough to live / Johnny’d been drinking, he was making fists
They said California’s got nothing to give / And all her friends in New York were his

So the car is packed, I climb in back,
But I don’t wanna go
I leave the place I’ve known, my face
Pressed against the rear window

Thinking no one in the world has ever been as lonely as me
There’s a sadness in my heart no one else can know
I’ve got a new life ahead, but all that I can see
Is my old life sliding away in that rear window

Well we drive through the desert and the mountains too / State by state on our journey west
And I sit and stare at the backwards view / But back to the east my focus rests
Some empty road in the dead of night / Somewhere in Nebraska, three AM
We pass the only car in sight / I hear another engine hum

And as we pass a vision’s cast in the moon’s translucent glow
I catch a glimpse of another kid
With their face against the rear window

I think there’s someone who looks just about as lonely as me
With a sadness in their heart like the one I know
Got a new life ahead, but all that they can see
Is their old life sliding away in that rear window

Well life goes on, and now I’m grown,
But my mind often goes
To the kid I spied that empty night
With their face against the rear window

And I know someone out there was once just as lonely as me
And now I feel I’ll never really be alone
For a second on that road, we shared our hopes and fears
Then we said goodbye through the rear window
Then we said goodbye through the rear window