A Love Like Smoke Lyrics

Footsteps echo on empty streets

Chasing a past that won't repeat

Your touch was fire, your words ran cold

Now I watch the embers lose control

You spoke in riddles, you moved like rain

Slipped through my fingers, but left a stain

I built a home in the shape of your name

Now the walls whisper, but it don't feel the same

Wind's gonna shift, tide's gonna change

Some things stay lost, some never fade

A love like smoke, rising slow

Fades in the air, nowhere to go

A love like smoke, drifting high

I reach for you, but you pass me by

You took the long road, I took the fall

Chasing a shadow, answering calls

The echo of laughter, the weight of the past

Some things burn quick, some things never last

I wrote you in verses, sang you in rhyme

But words ain't enough to keep hold of time

You were the river, I was the stone

Wore me down 'til there was nothing to hold

Wind's gonna shift, tide's gonna change

Some things stay lost, some never fade

A love like smoke, rising slow

Fades in the air, nowhere to go

A love like smoke, drifting high

I reach for you, but you pass me by

Every road I take leads back to here

Every song I sing still calls your name

But time don't stop, and hearts don't wait

And fire don't burn if it ain't got flame

A love like smoke, slipping free

Nothing to hold, nothing to keep