[Intro – whispered / low] Yeah… Keep your hands where I can see ’em. Some ghosts don’t die. They reload. [Chorus – eerie / catchy] All my friends got shadows in their eyes, I learned that trust can disappear overnight. Smile too sweet, card tucked tight, Left me buried where the smoke don’t lie. Oh, I kept that fire underneath, Had your name between my teeth, If I ever see your face again, I swear I’ll make the whole room bleed. But maybe time cuts slow, Maybe rage gets tired. Maybe all this hate Was just grief on fire. [Verse 1 – Graves / betrayed] I remember back rooms, black boots, bad odds, Two fools laughing like we outran gods. You talked silver, I talked lead, We made kings nervous when we walked in. Had a plan, had a score, had a way out clean, Then the walls came down like a bad dream. I was reaching for you through the heat and the screams, But your shadow was gone with the gold in the breeze. Cell door shut, iron bit cold, Ten years older with a heart turned stone. Every night I carved your name in my head, Not to remember you — to remember the debt. [Pre-Chorus – rising tension] I don’t sleep, I reload. I don’t weep, I go cold. I don’t pray, I keep score, One more knock at one more door. [Chorus – bigger] All my friends got shadows in their eyes, I learned that trust can disappear overnight. Smile too sweet, card tucked tight, Left me buried where the smoke don’t lie. Oh, I kept that fire underneath, Had your name between my teeth, If I ever see your face again, I swear I’ll make the whole room bleed. But maybe time cuts slow, Maybe rage gets tired. Maybe all this hate Was just grief on fire. [Post-Chorus – haunting chant] Smoke don’t lie, smoke don’t lie, I saw the truth through a loaded sky. Smoke don’t lie, smoke don’t lie, I kept your ghost alive. [Verse 2 – anger and pursuit] Every tavern got a whisper, every port got a tale, Man in a hat with a smile too well. They say he don’t stay, say he don’t bleed, Say he leaves before the devil can breathe. So I followed the trail where the cards ran gold, Through busted doors and roads gone cold. Every bounty said the same damn thing, “Don’t trust a man who can vanish clean.” I told myself when I found you there, I’d put thunder in the midnight air. No speech, no tears, no sorry, no plea, Just the sound of payback answering me. [Pre-Chorus – darker] I don’t sleep, I reload. I don’t weep, I go cold. I don’t pray, I keep score, But I don’t know why it hurts more. [Chorus – turning point] All my friends got shadows in their eyes, I learned that trust can disappear overnight. Smile too sweet, card tucked tight, Left me buried where the smoke don’t lie. Oh, I kept that fire underneath, Had your name between my teeth, If I ever see your face again, I thought I’d make the whole room bleed. But maybe time cuts slow, Maybe rage gets tired. Maybe all this hate Was just grief on fire. [Bridge – emotional shift / stripped beat] What if you were scared? What if I was blind? What if both of us Lost more than time? What if all these years I wore the blame like chains? Called it justice Just to hide the pain. I still see that night When the gold went red. I still hear your laugh In the back of my head. And if fate deals us One last dirty hand, I don’t know if I’ll shoot… Or if I’ll understand. [Final Chorus – forgiveness] All my friends got shadows in their eyes, But even broken trust can learn to survive. Smile too sweet, card tucked tight, Maybe we were both just trying to stay alive. I kept that fire underneath, Had your name between my teeth, If I ever see your face again, I won’t make the whole room bleed. Maybe time cuts slow, Maybe rage gets tired. Maybe all this hate Was just love on fire. [Outro – low / haunting] Smoke don’t lie, smoke don’t lie, But smoke still fades with time. If I see you on the other side, I might let the past die. One bad hand, two thieves, One old wound underneath. If we ever meet again… Maybe I’ll forgive you, Twisted Fate.
