Losing You To The Smoke

[Intro]
[hollow, distant]
You used to look at me...
Now you just look through me
[low drone, muffled 808, exhale texture]

[Verse 1]
First hit was recreational, now it's medication
I watch you disappear into your own creation
Rolling up before breakfast, eyes half-closed by noon
We used to talk for hours, now you just leave the room
The girl I fell for's fading underneath the haze
I'm reaching for your hand but you're a million miles away
Smoke clouds between our bodies like a barrier I can't break
You're physically beside me but mentally you escaped
I remember when your laugh didn't need a substance
Now you're chasing something I can never be a substitute for
Lighters on the nightstand where your books used to be
You're reading rolling papers more than you're reading me
I'm jealous of the high 'cause it gets more of your attention
You kiss me but it's hollow, just going through the motions

[Pre-Chorus]
And I stay, I stay
Watching you dissolve in slow motion (slow motion)
Thinking maybe love's enough to pull you out
But you chose the smoke, I'm just the thing you're going without

[Chorus]
I'm losing you to the smoke
Every exhale takes a piece of what we wrote
You're here but you're not, just a beautiful ghost
Fading in the fog where we used to be close
And I don't know how to save what's already gone
So I just breathe you in until I'm breathing alone

[Verse 2]
3 AM, you're finally talking but your words don't make no sense
Red eyes confession sessions that you won't remember since
I cleaned up all the ash trays hoping you would notice
But you just rolled another one like my efforts were the coldest
I miss the sober version, the one who held me tight
Now you hold the pipe closer than you hold me at night
Your dealer knows your schedule better than I do
I'm competing with a habit and the habit's winning too
Sometimes I hit it with you just to feel what you feel
Hoping if I meet you in the clouds we could heal
But all I got was numb, couldn't feel you anymore
Just two strangers getting high on a cold bedroom floor
You said "baby, I can quit," but that was seven months ago
Now I'm planning my escape but my feet don't wanna go

[Bridge]
[raw, breaking]
I've been holding onto vapor, trying to make it solid
Loving an addict while pretending I don't call it
The smoke's got your soul and I'm just fighting for the scraps
I want you back so bad but you ain't coming back (coming back)
You're already gone

[Final Chorus]
Lost you to the smoke, couldn't compete
With the numbness you were chasing just to feel complete
You chose the fog over everything we built
Now I'm standing in the ashes of love covered in guilt
I loved you through the haze until I couldn't breathe
Sometimes letting go is how you grieve

[Outro]
[fading, suffocated]
You used to look at me...
[whispered]
Now there's just smoke where you used to be
[long exhale, beat dissolves into static]

Trap-Soul: Smooth male vocals, heavy atmospheric bass, muted 808s, hazy reverb textures, sparse melancholic keys.