[Production Notes]
Tempo: 74 BPM
Intro Chords (piano arpeggio): Am – F – C – G (arpeggiated)
Verse Chords: Em – C – G – D
Pre-Chorus Build: F – G – Em
Chorus Progression: C – G – Am – F
Guitar Solo: play over Chorus progression, sustain and bend on the IV (F), use long vocal-like bends
Dynamics: start intimate (solo piano), build guitars into each chorus, full band by Chorus 3; guitar solo after Bridge
[Intro: Piano solo — Am – F – C – G arpeggio]
Slow keys like rain on glass, two notes that won't let go
A hush where soft lights gather, the night begins to show
[Verse 1: Guitar enters softly — Em – C – G – D]
Headlights bent like broken stars along the road (9)
Rain on the hood, a license plate folded and old (11)
Your jacket on the passenger seat, zipped to the throat (11)
I keep my hands on leather where your fingers used to float (11)
[Pre-Chorus: build — F – G – Em]
The radio is caught between two songs and time (10)
Every stoplight loops the moment the world lost its mind (11)
[Chorus 1: Full band — C – G – Am – F]
Your light keeps driving me (5)
Your light keeps driving me (5)
I follow the beam through empty streets and memory (11)
Your light keeps driving me (5)
A spark that won't go out, a map inside of me (11)
[Verse 2: add texture — Em – C – G – D]
They wheeled you past the fluorescent like a small, quiet moon (11)
Doctors with soft mouths, words that couldn't stitch the room (11)
Rain on the windshield, streaks that read like older vows (11)
I keep the glove with your print—pressed in where time allows (11)
[Pre-Chorus: build — F – G – Em]
There's a taped photograph half-hidden on the dash (10)
A coffee stain like sunrise, the radio plays your laugh (11)
[Chorus 2: Stronger — C – G – Am – F]
Your light keeps driving me (5)
Your light keeps driving me (5)
I trace the lines you left, a highway carved in grief (11)
Your light keeps driving me (5)
I promise on these rusted rails to carry every piece (11)
[Post-Chorus / Bilingual Refrain — soft]
मैं ये हिम्मत (I am this courage) — whispered, then held
(“Main ye himmat” — I am this courage)
[Short Personal Bridge: intimate memory — Em – C – G – D]
One song on the radio — you sang each lyric wrong
A ketchup smear on your collar from a laugh we kept too long
You slammed the glovebox shut, left a ticket folded thin
A bent hood ornament like a promise we couldn't mend
[Guitar Solo: over Chorus progression — C – G – Am – F]
(Soaring, vocal-like bends; sustain on the F; let notes cry and hover into windows of reverb)
[Post-Solo Vocal Bridge: immediate and raw — F – G – Em]
I talk to you in rooms that still smell of cologne (10)
I lay daisies on the dash — petals dry as small white stones (11)
I trace the tape that holds your photograph to plastic glass (11)
I read the scrawl you left on napkins like a map of who we were
[Chorus 3: Full crescendo — C – G – Am – F]
Your light keeps driving me (5)
Your light keeps drivi
