Title: Smoke Still Hangin' Artist: T34L Release Year: 2025 Released as: Album (Pin-Up Girl) ISRC: QT6G72575307 ASCAP: 933822534
Found her on the porch, shaking like a kicked-down door
Mascara running wild like she’d been through a war
Didn’t say his name she didn’t have to at all
Saw the bruises on her neck that she tried to hide with a shawl
Something in me snapped like a twig under boots
Some lines you don’t cross, and he’d torn straight through
Now there’s smoke still hanging where the truth hit the air
Sirens in the distance, but I ain’t going anywhere
I did what I had to for the girl I helped raise
And I’ll live with the cost ’til my dying day
‘Cause a man like him don’t ever learn to change
So I ended the storm, and it finally stopped raining
He was standing in the doorway, drink in his hand
Jaw full of poison, talking big like a man
I saw her flinch when he called out her name
And that was the second the fire lit my veins
A heart can break quiet, or it can break out loud
And mine chose the second, didn’t think, didn’t bow
Now there’s smoke still hanging where the truth hit the air
Sirens in the distance, but I ain’t going anywhere
I did what I had to for the girl I helped raise
And I’ll live with the cost ’til my dying day
‘Cause a man like him don’t ever learn to change
So I ended the storm, and it finally stopped raining
Maybe they’ll judge me, maybe they’ll talk
But they weren’t there hearing that deadbolt lock.
Sometimes saving someone means taking the fall
And I’ll carry the weight if it gave her back her soul
Smoke still hanging, but her hands don’t shake
And that’s the only peace I ever needed to make
I’d do it again if it meant she was safe
Yeah, I’d do it again, for the girl I helped raise
for the girl I helped raise
Yeah, it’s over now
