(Intro — soft clean guitar / cassette tape hiss)
Do you ever miss people…
Even when they’re still alive?
(Verse 1)
Dusty dashboard, midnight drive
Trying hard to feel alive
Your old jacket in the backseat still
Like a ghost that never will
Streetlights blur like memories
Summer nights and cheap motels
Laughing loud to hide the ache
Back before we learned heartbreak
(Pre-Chorus)
Now every photograph burns slow
But I still can’t let you go
(Chorus)
Polaroids and cigarettes
All the things we tried to forget
Your name still tastes like smoke and rain
A beautiful kind of pain
We were young, we were wreckless
Two lost souls trying to fake this
Now all that’s left inside my chest
Are polaroids and cigarettes
(Verse 2)
Bathroom sink and tired eyes
Songs we swore would never die
You’d dance barefoot through the room
Like the world still made sense to you
Then the silence grew too loud
Life pulled us in different crowds
No big ending, no goodbye
Just slowly fading over time
(Pre-Chorus)
Funny how the quiet hurts the most
When you miss somebody close
(Chorus)
Polaroids and cigarettes
All the things we tried to forget
Your voice still lingers in my head
Like words I never said
We were chaos, we were magic
Beautiful and deeply tragic
Now all that’s left inside my chest
Are polaroids and cigarettes
(Bridge — emotional build)
Maybe love doesn’t disappear
Maybe it just changes shape
Living somewhere in old songs
And the scars we never erase
(Final Chorus)
Polaroids and cigarettes
The kind of memories time protects
Even if the years move on
A part of us still sings along
And somewhere underneath these lights
I still see you in my mind
Frozen young and innocent
In polaroids and cigarettes
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