Taylor Rae - "Telluride" (NPR Tiny Desk Contest Submission 2024)

Thanks for checking out my Tiny Desk Contest video :) This is an original song I wrote while driving around Colorado on a two week radio tour. It will be on my forthcoming album, The Void, which is set to release later this year. Hope you enjoy!

Video by Madison Vencill (my sis/housemate/tour manager/bff)
Recorded/mixed by me :)

Lyrics:
Four Corners up ahead
Don’t want to leave the desert yet
I’ve packed my bags, I’ve placed my bets
I know I’ve made it when the mountains turn red

Sunlight burns my eyes
Elevation makes my lips dry
If I drive straight through the night
I might make just it to Telluride

Time stands still on the road
I'm stuck in between young and old
But even when I miss you the most
I will never go back to the coast

Heard you’re already settled down
A nine to five in a little beach town
What’s it like to play another round of house
So soon after ours burnt down?

I keep my life at a fast pace now
I might be running myself to the ground
Some call it lost, some call it found
But my loneliness makes me proud

Time stands still on the road
I'm stuck in between young and old
But even when I miss you the most
I will never go back to the coast

I'll never go back, I'll never go back