I light a smoke just to watch it fade,
Like your shadow slipping through the Everglade.
Ash on my fingers, burning slow and true,
Just like the feeling I still got for you.
This room’s full of echoes,
Your voice on repeat,
You’re dancing barefoot
In the back of my beat.
I tried to scrub you out with time and sin,
But you haunt my silence like a worn-out vinyl spin.
Cigarette smoke and memories
Float around like ghosts in the breeze,
I breathe you in with every drag I take,
Wishing love was something I could fake.
I play that record you used to hum,
The needle skips right where we came undone.
That song still knows where the hurting begins,
Like a preacher talking ’bout original sins.
Some nights I swear I feel your skin,
Moonlight slipping under my chin,
But it’s just the cold and the weight of regret,
Singing low what I can’t forget.
Cigarette smoke and memories
Blow through my soul like a late-night breeze,
You’re gone, baby, but not really gone,
You just turned to smoke I keep breathing on.
Yeah…
Still breathing you in,
One memory at a time.