Smoke in the Rearview

Streetlight halos drip on city stone

Ashtray thoughts keep circling alone

Rain on the window, faces blurred and gone

In midnight alleys I never belonged

Red eyes wander chasing neon ghosts

Lipstick fading, all the bars close

Cigarette sighs tangled in repose

There’s smoke in the rearview, shadows in my lane

I drive through the silence—slow motion through pain

All that remains is the static and rain

Are you just a rumor that I’ll never name?

The rhythm is broken, the vinyl repeats

Haunted by trumpet, dancing in the sleet

Idle confessions float out in the night

Under tungsten sorrow, we blur into light

Breath on the mirror, a trace in retreat

Lipstick fading, all the bars close

Cigarette sighs tangled in repose

There’s smoke in the rearview, shadows in my lane

I drive through the silence—slow motion through pain

All that remains is the static and rain

Are you just a rumor that I’ll never name?

Whispers of yesterday stain my coat

City rain drowning the secrets I wrote

Each heartbeat echoes, skipping away

I’ll leave all I loved in this yesterday haze

There’s smoke in the rearview, shadows in my lane

I drive through the silence—slow motion through pain

All that remains is the static and rain

Are you just a rumor that I’ll never name?Moving on empty roads

Disappear into the smoke

Let the city hush what I never spoke