(Intro)
(Sound of a car engine revving, radio static, feedback)
(Drums kick in — heavy kick/snare; Lead Guitar: descending riff over chugging E - A - B power chords)
[Verse 1]
[E] Back in 2003 my old [A] engine roared the blues,
[C#m] Hamburg's cold neon, [B] Bydgoszcz calling me home.
[E] Weekend highways, headlights [A] cutting rain on the hood,
Just to [C#m] see you, Ilona — tall [B] fire, a woman who’s good.
[Pre-Chorus]
[A] Didn't matter how far, [B] didn't matter the night,
Your [C#m] name on my lips, your [B] mile markers in the light.
[Chorus – Hard Rock]
[E] Headlights and thunder tried to [B] tear us apart,
But I [C#m] drove through the white noise with [A] you in my heart.
[E] Rain on the hood, [B] storm lines on the road,
Our [C#m] love struck harder than a [A] power‑chord's code.
And [E] every mile, every [B] mile proved it true —
I [A] burned for you, I [B] burned for [E] you.
(Production note: chorus lifts with stacked backing vocals/harmony on the last two lines)
(Short instrumental fill: E - A - E — guitar stabs, crowd/choir pad builds)
[Verse 2]
[E] 2005 — you packed your [A] past, crossed the border line,
[C#m] Moved to Hamburg with courage [B] to touch the sky.
[E] 2007 — our first bright [A] star began to glow,
And I [C#m] knew this life was a song we [B] were born to grow.
[Pre-Chorus]
[A] Didn't matter how hard, [B] didn't matter the fight,
We [C#m] kept rolling forward through the [B] darkest nights.
[Chorus – Hard Rock]
[E] Headlights and thunder tried to [B] tear us apart,
But I [C#m] drove through the white noise with [A] you in my heart.
[E] Rain on the hood, [B] storm lines on the road,
Our [C#m] love struck harder than a [A] power‑chord's code.
And [E] every mile, every [B] mile proved it true —
I [A] burned for you, I [B] burned for [E] you.
[Verse 3]
[C#m] March twenty‑first, two‑[B] thousand‑nine —
We [A] promised “forever” and meant every line.
[C#m] 2011 — another [B] bright soul in our home,
[A] 2018 — a dog‑angel made our [B] family whole.
[Bridge – Raw, Emotional, Slow]
[C#m] We stood on the edge — one [G#m] second from the fall,
[A] One heartbeat from silence, [E] close to losing it all.
[C#m] But something stronger pulled us [G#m] back from the flame,
[A] A quiet voice that whispered, [B] "Not yet — we share one name."
(Music: Drum fill explodes. Guitar solo: high, screaming bends — 8 bars soaring)
[Guitar Solo — 8 bars]
(After the solo: call-and-response)
(Lead Vocal) "Ilona!"
(Backing Crowd) "Ilona!"
(Lead) "This road —"
(Backing) "— is yours and mine!"
(Production note: call-and-response lands into final chorus; add a two-bar guitar lick as a vocal tag on the last line)
[Final Chorus – Stadium Rock]
[E] Life tried to break us, but [B] we broke through,
[C#m] Came out louder, [A] stronger — me and you.
[E] Now wherever my [B] wild road goes,
You're the [C#m] fire that keeps my [A] engine close.
And [E] every mile, every [B] mile proved it true —
I [A] burned for you, I [B] burned for [E] you
