“Summer & Smoke is about falling in love, trusting and confiding in someone only for them to disappear just when you think you’ve found them. There’s a metaphor underpinning the song of sharing that intimacy over a cigarette trusting someone enough to fall asleep in their arms but then the lonel...
[Verse 1]
You came to me this morning with red eyes glowing
Like my old pictures of you
And I love you in ways I find too complicated
I can't take my eyes off you
[Pre-Chorus]
May I speak with you openly from here
In this light, a kind of blue?
If I don’t say it now you could be gone forever
Without knowing the truth
[Chorus]
Wait, where do you go? Can't I come too?
I don't feel alive, but when I'm with you, I really do
I need you
[Verse 2]
I still remember the Summer & Smoke
The ocean breeze on lips bruised
The person that you once knew fеll into a fire
Blinded by the promisе of you
[Pre-Chorus]
May I speak with you openly from here
In this light, a kind of blue?
If I don't say it now you could be gone forever
Without knowing the truth
[Chorus]
Wait, please don’t go, can't I come too?
I don't feel alive, but when I'm with you, I really do
I need you
[Bridge]
Sharin' smokes out your bathroom window
I was ashamed of how you made my skin glow
I fell asleep as the smoke kept climbing higher and higher
My heart was the house you left burning in that fire
I don't feel alive, but when I'm with you, I really do
[Outro]
I really do
I really do, do, do
I need you
[Instrumental Outro]
Summer & Smoke was written by Andrew Davie & Kevin Jones.
Summer & Smoke was produced by Ian Grimble.
Bear’s Den released Summer & Smoke on Tue May 16 2023.
Yes, as stated in the post announcing releasing of this track, it is inspired by the work of Tennessee Williams which goes by the same name as the title.