Love Through The Smoke

**Love Through the Smoke**

 

 

Verse 1

 

Late nights, porch light flicker, tires whisper on the road,

 

you roll up steady, hair tucked, eyes carrying heavy loads.

 

We trade the same silence like it’s currency, breathe low,

 

city breathing at our feet, every step another show.

 

You say you ride, I say I ride — promise made on cracked tile,

 

we got scars that line our palms, numbers dialed all the while.

 

Love like a chessboard, pawns fall, kings stay in the fight,

 

I keep you close when the nights get loud and the bad guys write.

 

 

Pre-Chorus

 

Ain’t no roses on this corner, just the perfume of cheap smoke,

 

but your laugh cut clean through the chaos when every other light broke.

 

 

Chorus (call-and-response vibe)

 

Can you love me through the smoke, through the sirens, through the cold?

 

Can you love me when the blocks talk loud and the nights unfold?

 

Can you keep my secrets in your chest like a folded note?

 

Girl, can you love me—can you love me through the smoke?

 

(Through the smoke) — yeah

 

 

Verse 2

 

We got late-night confessions over dashboard glow,

 

I show you my demons, you just kiss like you already know.

 

Neighbors whisper like they read the script, labeling our moves,

 

I write you in my margins, every line another proof.

 

You watch me pivot, hustle hard, two phones, one soul,

 

you tell me “don’t be reckless,” I tell you “try to hold.”

 

We chase better days but get stuck on one-way streets,

 

your hand on my lap steady — that’s where my heartbeat meets.

 

 

Pre-Chorus

 

Promises made on pennies, still they shine when you talk,

 

you the alley’s only blessing when the whole world wanna walk.

 

 

Chorus

 

Can you love me through the smoke, through the sirens, through the cold?

 

Can you love me when the blocks talk loud and the nights unfold?

 

Can you keep my secrets in your chest like a folded note?

 

Girl, can you love me—can you love me through the smoke?

 

(Through the smoke)

 

 

Bridge (spoken, urgent)

 

They’ll test you, babe — loyalty like dynamite, one wrong squeeze, boom.

 

I’m askin’ you plain: will you stay when the night eats the room?

 

I done seen love turn to rumor, turn to cash, turn to ruin,

 

but when you lean and say “I’m here,” that’s the only truth I’m pursuing.

 

 

Verse 3

 

We plan exits on napkins, dreams scribbled in the cracks,

 

you laugh about the future but you steady watch my back.

 

I ain’t perfect, I confess — I got ghosts in my reflection,

 

but you the constant in the chaos, my only resurrection.

 

If the block take everything, take my chain, take my hope,

 

I’d still find you by the stoop, still learning how to cope.

 

Love on the block ain’t pretty, but it’s honest when it’s real,

 

you my ride in the storm, girl — that’s the only thing I feel.

 

 

Final Chorus (layered, rising)

 

Can you love me through the smoke, through the sirens, through the cold?

 

Can you love me when the blocks talk loud and the nights unfold?

 

Can you keep my secrets in your chest like a folded note?

 

Girl, can you love me—can you love me through the smoke?

 

(Through the smoke, through the smoke) — uh

 

 

Outro (soft, determined)

 

When the dawn cut the dark, when the rumors get broke,

 

you still stand by my side — love through the smoke.