Skin and Smoke (Version 2)

Verse

Rooftop smoke, the city hums low

Steel light bends through the glass below

Your hand finds mine where the shadows grow

Every street corner knows my name

No one here is asking what I brought home

The money comes from names we threw away

Not the promise of a brighter day

Pre-Chorus

Hold the smoke close, let it burn slow

Something's rising that we need to know

This is all there ever was or will be

Just us and the city, running free

Chorus

Skin and smoke above the streetlight glow

Every hand I've lost becomes my only road

Burning down what they don't understand

We are every name this city couldn't hold

Moving like the night is ours alone

Nothing left but smoke and skin and bone

Verse 2

Your jacket's torn, the collar stained with rain

You laugh too loud, I count the pain again

A dozen rooftops, a hundred names we owe

Every light we steal feeds what they won't know

I built this fire from a single match that glowed

Watch it burn before they ever find us here

Pre-Chorus

Hold the smoke close, let it burn slow

Something's rising that we need to know

This is all there ever was or will be

Just us and the city, running free

Chorus

Skin and smoke above the streetlight glow

Every hand I've lost becomes my only road

Burning down what they don't understand

We are every name this city couldn't hold

Moving like the night is ours alone

Nothing left but smoke and skin and bone

Bridge

Maybe one more fire, then we disappear

You were never mine to lose or keep

This whole block was just a door I opened wide

Now it's turning into something wild

Chorus

Skin and smoke above the streetlight glow

Every hand I've lost becomes my only road

Burning down what they don't understand

We are every name this city couldn't hold

Moving like the night is ours alone

Nothing left but smoke and skin and bone