[Smoke Against the Glass] [ Verse 1 ] I’m sitting in the corner of this velvet chair. I feel the cooling movement of the evening air. I track the steady rhythm of your quiet breath. I’m drowning in the silence of the space that's left. [ Pre-Chorus 1 ] How can you be so close and still feel miles away? I’m searching for the words I know I’ll never say. [ Chorus 1 ] I’m standing in the light and waiting to be seen. But there is such a distance falling in between. You look right through the secrets that I try to hide. The version that you see has pushed the truth aside. [ Verse 2 ] Your head begins to turn as she is walking by. You track the golden silk that catches in your eye. I watch your pupils widen at her perfect skin. I wonder where her grace ends and my flaws begin. [ Pre-Chorus 2 ] How can you be so close and still feel miles away? I’m searching for the words I know I’ll never say. [ Chorus 2 ] I’m standing in the light and waiting to be seen. But there is such a distance falling in between. You look right through the secrets that I try to hide. The version that you see has pushed the truth aside. [Instrumental Break - Melodic Solo and Dynamics] [ Bridge ] I’m pressed against the window, smoke against the glass. I pray for just a second that you’ll let this pass. For every scar I’m hiding deep beneath my sleeve, It’s safer being ghost-like than it is to leave. Rejection is a poison I can’t dare to take, So I’ll remain a shadow for my own heart’s sake. [ Verse 3 ] My knuckles white from gripping on the leather seat. I almost say your name to make the pain retreat. I see the way you smile at faces in the crowd. While every part of me is crying out so loud. [ Pre-Chorus 3 ] How can you be so close and still feel miles away? I’m searching for the words I know I’ll never say. [ Final Chorus ] I’m standing in the light but never truly shown. I’ll keep the heavy burden of a heart unknown. I’d rather be a shadow in your daily sight, Than see you turn away and leave me in the night. [ Outro ] The darkness is where all my foolish hope survives. A quiet evening spent inside our separate lives. I’m breathing in the air you leave behind for me. The only way that we will ever really be.
