Mackenzie Johnson's video: Mackenzie Johnson - Passenger Original

Here’s “Passenger,” a tune of mine I’m entering into NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest this year. It’s a song about surrendering to love by allowing yourself to be its passenger, to ride its ever-changing waves of beauty and hurt. No matter the outcome, I’m really proud of this one, and I hope you love it too 🥲 LYRICS: verse 1 it carries me like the waves on an open sea wading, wandering, capture me and hijack my heart it moves my mouth and the words that are coming out whispering turns into a shout and I fall apart pre-chorus take me for a ride, take me for a ride I’ll let you hold me you can be my guide till the day I die just shape and mold me chorus cause I’m just your passenger I’ll hang on your every word until we crash and burn I’ll still dance in the flames of you verse 2 you threw me out rocked the boat, left me there to drown discarded like the lost and found and I’m sinking deep ooh, but I’ll swim back up for more reach the surface and the promise of the shore siren song, I am hooked on your allure sing me to sleep pre-chorus and take me for a ride, take me for a ride I’ll let you hold me a gravity that I never could defy why fight the inescapable beast chorus cause I’m just your passenger I’ll hang on your every word until we crash and burn I’ll still dance in the flames of you you’re gone in a flash and then you’re holding my hand again I never know where or when but I’ll stand here and wait for you cause I’m just your passenger bridge I’m tied to your rhythm I write every song about you with or without you I’m your willing victim shortsighted and wrong, you told me to guess I’ll never learn I will only return, just say when closing chorus cause I’m just your passenger swear you off then I surrender it’s worth a whole world of hurt just to dance in the flames of you you’re gone in a flash and then you’re holding my hand again I never know where or when but I’ll stand here and wait for you cause I’m just your passenger oh, I’m just your passenger I’m just your passenger you carry me like the waves on an open sea wading, wandering, capture me and hijack my heart Mackenzie Johnson Music 2023