No More Sugar in the Smoke

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Ash on the windshield
Ash on my tongue
Backseat of a pickup
We were kids, we were young

Black snow on the dashboard
Floating down slow
Mama said, “That’s sugar”
Rising from the old cane rows

[Chorus]
No more sugar in the smoke
Used to rain from the sky on the days we’d choke
We were laughing, running, breathing in the glow
Red sun sinking where the trade winds blow
No more sugar in the smoke
Only stories that we tell when the night gets cold
But I still taste it when the trade winds blow
No more sugar in the smoke

[Verse 2]
Shirts over our faces
Riding home late
Haleakalā fading
In a rust-orange haze

Fire on the hillside
Turned the sea gold
We were making up futures
Like we’d never get old

[Chorus]
No more sugar in the smoke
Used to rain from the sky on the days we’d choke
We were laughing, running, breathing in the glow
Red sun sinking where the trade winds blow
No more sugar in the smoke
Only stories that we tell when the night gets cold
But I still taste it when the trade winds blow
No more sugar in the smoke

[Bridge]
Do you remember
Hands out, catching cinders? (oh yeah)
Little halos on our skin
We didn’t know it was the end

Fields gone quiet
Still hear them in my head
Every sunset feels lighter
But I miss that burning red

[Chorus]
No more sugar in the smoke
Used to rain from the sky on the days we’d choke
We were laughing, running, breathing in the glow
Red sun sinking where the trade winds blow
No more sugar in the smoke
Only stories that we tell when the night gets cold
But I still taste it when the trade winds blow
No more sugar in the smoke

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