🚬Cigarettes & Haloes 🕯️By Blackthorn Riot
Song By Blackthorn Riot Lyrics born from Emotions, Chaos and late-night fire by Mavros Blackthorn and Rikki Morningstar [Intro] [Soft rain ambience] [Clean melancholic guitar] [Distant violin crying softly] You always looked different after midnight. Less guarded. More real. [Low bass rumble] [Verse 1] I found you sitting outside the motel office Wrapped in that oversized coat you kept pretending was warm enough Your hands circled around a paper cup Long after the coffee stopped steaming [Soft violin stab] The parking lot was almost empty Just passing headlights and rainwater moving along the curb You asked me if I ever get tired Of carrying entire conversations inside my head I laughed quietly at that Because I didn’t know how to explain That exhaustion had started feeling permanent months ago [Distorted guitar slowly enters] [Pre-Chorus] Some people hide pain loudly You hid yours carefully Inside half-smiles And unfinished sentences [Violins rising emotionally] [Chorus] Cigarettes and haloes That’s what you felt like to me Something fragile trying hard to survive Inside a world that mistakes exhaustion for strength [Huge drums crash] [Violins explode with the chorus] Cigarettes and haloes Rain against the motel glass Two people staying awake together Because sleep meant being alone with themselves again [Verse 2] You started talking about home eventually Not the physical place Just the idea of feeling settled somewhere Without always expecting it to disappear [Fast emotional violin strikes] [Melancholic violin melody weaving through guitars] A truck passed slowly beyond the intersection Its headlights sliding across your face for half a second You looked suddenly younger in that light Like somebody still trying to believe things could improve I asked if you were alright You just smiled and said “Saints like us don’t survive for long…” [Heavy grunge riff crashes in] [Pre-Chorus] Nobody teaches you How to comfort someone honestly When you’re still learning How to survive yourself [Violins swell dramatically] [Chorus] Cigarettes and haloes Smoke drifting through cold air You kept apologizing for things That never should’ve been yours to carry alone [Violins screaming beside distorted guitars] You kissed me like a tragedy Beautiful and doomed Now every rainy city street Still carries traces of your perfume [Bridge] [Everything softens] [guitar with deep bass pulse] [Lonely violin weeping quietly] Around five in the morning The rain finally slowed You leaned your head against my shoulder And stopped talking completely Sometimes silence says more Than exhausted people know how to explain [Soft whispered backing vocals] “Know how to explain” [Build-Up] [Violins intensify slowly] [Drums growing heavier] [Feedback building in the background] I think some nights remain inside your chest forever Not because they changed your life dramatically But because someone trusted you enough To let you see how much they were hurting [Guitar Solo – Emotional screaming guitar solo] [Violins colliding dramatically with lead guitar] [Final Chorus] Cigarettes and haloes Morning light across your face I remember thinking how strange it was That fragile things could survive this long [Massive gang vocals] [Violins soaring above crashing drums] Cigarettes and haloes And the sound of traffic waking up outside Two exhausted souls still breathing Still trying Still alive [Outro] [Rain ambience returns] [Slow fading distorted guitars] [One final trembling violin note] “I should’ve told you you didn’t have to carry everything alone…” [Static fades out]
