Cologne

(Mmmhhmmm… mhm…)

(Do you,) (Do you still,)

Do you still smell my cologne

When I’m not around anymore

Like when somebody passes by wearing something close to it

And then suddenly your back to my face again ’Cause I remember what it did to you

The second that scent got close to your nose That little look across my face saying damn is this working on you

Like you were trying not to let it show too

I’d put it on knowing damn well

You were probably gonna notice the smell

Walk a little closer than you needed too Just to see if you could focus on what you intended to do

And you’d look at me thinking

Boy you know exactly what you’re doing

Yeah…Maybe I did

But now I wonder what happening

When that smell finds you without me with it Does your mind fill in the rest

Do you still smell my cologne

When I’m not around you anymore

Does it bring back the way you looked at me When I walked through your door

Do you still smell my cologne

And does your mind go back through all of it again To the way it had you feeling

When you caught it on my skin

Maybe I’m gone

Maybe we ain’t what we were before

But tell me

Do you still smell my cologne

When I’m not around you anymore

(Mmm… anymore…)

Is it possible for a scent to hold a memory

Better than a picture ever could

One second you’re somewhere different

Next second you’re remembering everything you shouldn’t

Maybe you’re shopping somewhere

Maybe you’re walking through the streets

And then somebody wearing something similar Turns your whole memory to me

For half a minute

For half a second

Do you look

Thinking maybe somehow I’m still in there

Then realize it’s some stranger

And laugh at what your mind just did

’Cause that hasn’t happen to you in a while

But maybe Little things still bring me to you A phrase A song something somebody wears and movie you’ve seen multiple times you love and then suddenly the past comes breaking through hurting you for what i did to you So I wonder if I left

Something like that behind with you

Not my clothes Not my pictures

Just that scent I wore and everything you connected it to

Do you still smell my cologne

When I’m not around you anymore

Does it bring back the way you looked at me When I walked through your door

Do you still smell my cologne

Does it hit you now and then when I’m gone

Does your body recognize the memory

Before your mind remembers when

I remember that smile

I remember that look you wore

So tell me

Do you still smell my cologne

When I’m not around anymore

It’s just a question that’s all this ever was for

I remember getting close

And watching your whole expression change Like something about that smell on me Had your thoughts going somewhere you wouldn’t say but deep down I’m already know, smelling my clothes without letting go That’s probably why

I kept wearing the same cologne

I got others more but

It became apart of me now knowing what it means Something small I never thought about Until there wasn’t a reason to put it back on Now

(Mhmmhmm….)