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Smoke

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Smoke was released on April 10, 2026 by Nudge Records as a part of the album Long Way Home

Song Details

AlbumLong Way Home

Release DateApril 10, 2026

LabelNudge Records

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM74

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

TYDAL

Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Tyler Drury

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

TYDAL

Executive Producer

Lyrics

It follows me home

Gets in the fabric, gets in the walls

I scrub my hands and I still smell it on my palms

There are things I've seen that I don't have the words to hold

So I swallow them like embers, let them smolder in my bones

They just sit in my chest like a second set of lungs

Breathing for me when the real ones come undone

I don't know when it started, couldn't tell you the day

Something heavy moved in and just decided to stay

Like a guest who never leaves but never makes a sound

You forget that it's there 'til the lights go down

And the quiet gets loud and the walls get thin

And the smoke finds every crack to settle in

And nobody asks 'cause I look fine

And I am fine

Most of the time

Most of the time

But the smoke rises

Even when the fire's out it rises

And maybe that's the point

That what I carry doesn't have to stay inside my chest

Maybe it was always meant to lift

The smoke rises

And I don't have to hold my breath

I've learned to package it in silence, wrap it up and set it on the shelf

Told myself that strength is just the art of never asking anyone for help

And I got good at it, professional, a craft

Swallow it before it surfaces, redirect and laugh

But the smoke doesn't care about your architecture

It finds the gaps you didn't know were structurally defective

Creeps in on the nights when everything is still

When the house is finally quiet and I'm sitting with the weight I feel

Wondering why the air still tastes like ash

Wondering if the things I've breathed will ever really pass

There's gotta be a place where this gets set down

Where the things that live inside don't own me when the sun goes down

And nobody asks 'cause I look fine

And I am fine

But fine's a fire I've been standing in

For a long time

But the smoke rises

Even when the fire's out it rises

And maybe that's the point

That what I carry doesn't have to stay inside my chest

Maybe it was always meant to lift

The smoke rises

And I don't have to hold my breath

I used to think the smoke meant I was burning down

Coming apart where no one sees the edges

But smoke moves up

It always moves up

And there's an altar I can't see

Where everything I've carried

Becomes an offering

The smoke rises

Even when the fire's out it rises

And that's the point

What I carry doesn't have to stay inside my chest

It was always meant to lift

The smoke rises

The smoke rises

And I don't have to hold my breath anymore

I don't have to hold my breath

Written by: Tyler Drury

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