Verse 1
Gas pump clicks. Receipt in hand. Two towns over. No one knows my plan. Motel key. Plastic tag. Familiar weight inside my bag.
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Track 08 · Everywhere Isn't Texas
The Places in Between
Album track
Meaning gathers in motel rooms, empty highway miles, and the silence between songs. The overlooked spaces are not delays in the journey; they are where Calla begins to recognize herself.
Written and produced by Tulio Costa · Performed by Calla Hayes
08Official lyrics
The Places in Between
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Verse 2
Cracked ceiling. Flickering light. A restless dog across the night. Ice machine. Humming low. A sound I've come to know.
Pre-Chorus
The highlight reel is just a lie. The real truth passes by. In between the breaths I take. Between the moves I make.
Chorus
I found myself in the places in between. Not the mountains, not the neon gleam. In the static on the dial. The empty highway for a mile. In the quiet I've never seen. That's where I've been. In the places in between.
Verse 3
Burnt coffee. Folded map. A crack in the glass, a tiny gap. Motel bible. Never read. Echoes of words I should have said.
Verse 4
Two exits. Same fast food. A cloud that looks like nothing good. A payphone. No one calls. I trace my name on foggy walls.
Pre-Chorus
The milestones always feel too staged. The real script's on the page I never turn, I never fold. The story's in the quiet hold.
Chorus
I found myself in the places in between. Not the mountains, not the neon gleam. In the static on the dial. The empty highway for a mile. In the quiet I've never seen. That's where I've been. In the places in between.
Bridge
There's a two-minute silence between songs on the radio. There's a three-second pause before I let myself go. I used to rush through those gaps. I used to call them waste. Now I stop and taste the space. The in-between. The quiet grace. Of not arriving, not yet leaving. Just breathing. Just believing.
Outro
The places in between... (That's where I live) The places in between... (What I forgive) The places in between... (What I give) In between...