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🎙️ Smoke in the Moonlight

[Verse 1 – Female]
There’s a hush in the room, just the clock and me,
Your voice in the vinyl, soft as memory.
Every sip burns slow, but it’s all I can do,
To keep from calling out to you.

[Male]
The band plays low, like it understands,
That love slips away through trembling hands.
I close my eyes and the years unwind,
Your laughter drifts across my mind.

[Verse 2 – Female]
The night leans close with a lover’s grin,
I breathe you out, I draw you in.
The smoke curls round like a sweet perfume,
Your shadow’s dancing across the gloom.

[Male/Female]
I wear your name like a secret tune,
Whispered soft beneath the moon.
Each note I sing just pulls me near,
To the place where you still appear.

[Chorus – Duet]
Smoke in the moonlight, hearts on fire,
Love’s old echo in a broken wire.
We keep on singing what we can’t explain,
Two lonely souls in the same old pain.

[Male/Female]
Smoke in the moonlight, hush the sound,
Of all we lost and never found.
The night forgives, the morning hides,
The truth we keep on both our sides.

[Instrumental break – soft trumpet / sax solo]
(no lyrics – space for about 40 seconds of music)

[Verse 3 – Male & Female call-and-response]
Female: The night’s still young, but I feel it fade.
Male: The truth’s still sweet, but the price we paid.
Female: I still taste your name in the smoke I breathe.
Male:  I still hear your heart every time I leave.

Female:  These old walls hum the song we knew.
Both:  I hum it back, just thinking of you.
Both: And every chord the pianist plays
Feels like love that lost its way.

[Final Chorus – Duet, slower and softer]
Smoke in the moonlight, fade with me,
Hold this moment, let it be.
The crowd drifts home, but I’ll stay right here,
With your ghost in my glass, and your voice in my ear.

[Female]
Smoke in the moonlight, don’t let go,
Let the last note fall real slow.
The night still sighs, the bar lights gleam,
And love slips off into the dream.

[Outro – softly spoken / sung ad-lib]
Mmm… the smoke, the moonlight…
Just you and me… one more time.
(music fades)

🎙️ Smoke in the Moonlight

Hi, 

I am Ray Charles a Dutch composer and hope you enjoy my music.


Thanks for listening and support on my music.

*** Be strong, focussed and creative and make music from your heart **

Cheers
Ray

🎙️ Smoke in the Moonlight

FloatWithMe - Composer