Between Breath and Smoke

[Intro – whispered | distant] Streets of stone… still holding heat In the grey… something breathes [soft breath] [sensual jazz Harmonica solo playing] a note remains… somewhere… [Verse 1 – female | airy, fragile] [sensual jazz Harmonica solo playing] Wet lights shimmer on old roads Tracing steps no one keeps Through the windows, through the slow rain Lives a song the night still speaks A breath moves through empty rooms Like a whisper out of time Between shadows and distant dreams There’s a sound… undefined [Verse 2 – male | low, intimate] [sensual jazz Harmonica solo playing] Cold smoke hangs in open doorways Echoes drift, unnamed, unseen Fingers search for traces fading Where the silence splits between A tone bends like a promise breaking Between longing and release You can’t hold it, can’t reshape it It’s not yours… and not mine to keep [Pre – duet | soft overlap] [sensual jazz Harmonica solo playing] And we hear it… when all goes quiet… [Chorus – duet | floating] [sensual jazz Harmonica solo playing] Between breath and smoke it carries us through the night No words spoken yet it says everything right Between lines of time and what never fades away There’s a song that stays… even when it won’t explain [Break – abstract vocal textures] [sensual jazz Harmonica solo playing] [ahh… oh… broken syllables] [chopped breaths, drifting rhythms] [Verse 3 – female | distant] Old reflections in borrowed hands No names left, just light and air And the tones that never vanish Still remember we were there [Verse 4 – male | fading] And the streets speak low in passing Of the seconds no one saved Every note in its own language Finds the dark… and reshapes [Final Chorus – wider, emotional] [sensual jazz Harmonica solo playing] Between breath and smoke it takes us even higher No destination yet the sky keeps opening wider Between night and sound there’s a place we almost know And we linger there… without names… letting go… [Outro – whisper | dissolving] [sensual jazz Harmonica solo playing] one note… keeps drifting… [sensual jazz Harmonica solo playing] [fade into air] [end song]