Smoke and Ashes

VERSE 1

You came to me with poison on your tongue

Dressed it up in whispers, made it sound like truth

I was too blind to see what you had done

You were already burning down the roof

I found the letters hidden in your coat

The names, the dates, the promises you'd made

Every word you wrote

Was another shovel digging up my grave

CHORUS

You were the smoke and I was the flame

I burned myself just keeping you alive

But smoke don't hold a name

And fire needs more than just a lie to thrive

You took the best of me and made it yours

Left nothing but the wreckage and the scars

I'm closing all the doors

You're nothing now but smoke beneath the stars

VERSE 2

We built this thing from nothing, brick by brick

You swore on everything that mattered then

But you were always counting what was rich

And I was just a means to get it in

You smiled while you took the only thing

That I had left to give, my name, my trust

You wore it like a ring

And ground it into dirt and into dust

CHORUS

You were the smoke and I was the flame

I burned myself just keeping you alive

But smoke don't hold a name

And fire needs more than just a lie to thrive

You took the best of me and made it yours

Left nothing but the wreckage and the scars

I'm closing all the doors

You're nothing now but smoke beneath the stars

VERSE 3

I caught you in the act, no need to lie

You didn't even flinch, just stared me down

Said you never asked me why

I was so eager to believe your crown

You blamed the world, you blamed the hunger deep

You blamed the life we couldn't afford to live

But you were built to keep

Taking everything I had left to give

CHORUS

You were the smoke and I was the flame

I burned myself just keeping you alive

But smoke don't hold a name

And fire needs more than just a lie to thrive

You took the best of me and made it yours

Left nothing but the wreckage and the scars

I'm closing all the doors

You're nothing now but smoke beneath the stars

VERSE 4

Now I'm sitting in the dark with what remains

A house that echoes with your voice and ghost

Salt still burning in the veins

Where you carved away the thing I loved the most

I don't hate you, that would be too clean

You're just a mirror of a darker truth

I wanted to believe

In something that was never really you

BRIDGE

But I won't break down crying over you

I've got my anger and I've got my pride

I'll find a way to move

Past all the things you buried deep inside

You thought that you could erase who I was

Make me small enough to fit inside your need

But I'm made of harder stuff

Than any promise that you couldn't keep

FINAL CHORUS

You were the smoke and I was the flame

I burned myself believing in your word

But smoke don't have a name

And I'm still standing when the dust has cleared

You took the best of me and called it love

Left nothing but the ashes and the scars

I'm rising above

I'm done chasing smoke beneath the stars

OUTRO

You're nothing now but smoke

Fading in the night

And I'm still burning bright

Long after you've gone.