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This song is ✨Unreleased✨.
"Smokey Black Nights" is an unreleased song by Taylor Swift. It is the fifteenth track on "Taylor's Songs".
Taylor started writing "Smokey Black Nights" while on a vacation in Stone Harbor in the summer of 2002. As seen in a diary in her 2020 documentary Miss Americana, she finished a first draft on January 19, 2003. In a 2009 email exchange with The Philadelphia Inquirer about her days on the shore, Taylor spoke about the song:
There was a little demo I made when I was 11, and I think it's floating around the Internet. It's called "Smokey Black Nights" and it's all about being at the shore.
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Let's watch the tide chase the waves onto the sand
I wonder if a broken heart can feel the warmth of my hand
And I wonder what a piece of driftwood has seen all through his lifetime
Let's walk away the past through the smokey black nights
[Chorus]
I've seen a million things
Spoke a million words
Now I only want to speak to you
Waiting for the words
Counting every bird
There's nothing I'd rather do
On the smokey black nights
[Verse 2]
Still through the haze I can make out constellations
I'll make one of you and me as we sit in the sand
And I saw that sunset gleaming as my eyes went wild
Let's walk away the past through the smokey black nights
[Chorus]
I've played a thousand songs
Sang a thousand words
Now I only want to sing to you
Waited on a wire
Staring at the fire
There's nothing I'd rather do
On the smokey black nights
[Chorus]
I've walked a thousand miles
Smiled a thousand smiles
Now I only smile when I'm with you
Waiting for the words
Counting every bird
There's nothing I'd rather do
On the smokey black nights
[Outro]
So walk with me as the sweet wind dances
I'll write a song for you and me on the smokey black nights