Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals (Lyrics)

"You can learn a lot about Phoebe Bridgers’ sound by her associations. Ryan Adams produced and released her 2015 debut EP Killer, and she’s opening for Conor Oberst on a European tour this winter. Perhaps most pertinently, she also played some shows with Julien Baker, with whom she shares the ability to elicit maximum power from minimal balladry. Bridgers, just 22 years old, has a new single today, and it will stop your heart.

Bridgers wrote “Smoke Signals” in a cabin outside Ketchum, Idaho, last spring. It finds her somberly emoting against a backdrop of guitar chords and orchestral swells. Sometimes her words are poetic: “I wanna live at a Holiday Inn where somebody else makes the bed/ We’ll watch TV while the lights on the street put all the stars to death.” Other times she’s more straightforward but just as powerful: “All of our problems, I’m gonna solve them/ With you riding shotgun, speeding ’cause fuck the cops.” References to Bowie, the Smiths, and Motörhead might capture your attention, but the recurring image of trash burning on the beach is what will linger with you." - Stereogum, Chris DeVille, January 9 2017

♪ lyrics ♪

[Verse 1]
I went with you up to
The place you grew up in
We spent a week in the cold
Just long enough to
"Walden" it with you
Any longer, it would have got old
Singing "Ace of Spades" when Lemmy died
But nothing's changed, L.A.'s all right
I'm sleeping in my bed again, and getting in my head
And then walk around the reservoir

[Chorus]
You, you must have been looking for me
Sending smoke signals
Pelicans circling
Burning trash out on the beach

[Verse 2]
One of your eyes is
Always half-shut
Something happened when you were a kid
I didn't know you then
And I'll never understand
Why it feels like I did
"How Soon Is Now" in an '80s sedan
You slept inside of it because your dad
Lived in a campground in the back of a van
You said that song will creep you out until you're dead

[Chorus]
And you must have been looking for me
Sending smoke signals
Pelicans circling
Burning trash out on the beach

[Verse 3]
I want to live at
The Holiday Inn
Where somebody else makes the bed
We'll watch TV while
The lights on the street
Put all the stars to death
It's been on my mind since Bowie died
Just checking out to hide from life
And all of our problems, I'm gonna solve 'em
With you riding shot-gun, speeding, 'cause fuck the cops

[Chorus]
And you, you must have been looking for me
Sending smoke signals
Pelicans circling
Burning trash out on the beach

[Verse 4]
I buried a hatchet
It's coming up lavender
The future's unwritten
The past is a corridor
I'm at the exit looking back through the hall
You are anonymous
I am a concrete wall
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[lisakatz]

Netflix "I Used to be Funny" brought me here December 15th, 2024. How did I NEVER hear this before now?!?! She has such a beautiful voice...

[ANabiha]

this is the song I listen to when I can't talk to anyone but I need something to comfort me for a moment

[sadoceaneyes]

This song just makes everything feel so heavy. This is my first time hearing it and I just have to say that this is definitely one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard

[iliketrees]

her music and just this song really reminds me that im not alone in my mind, like i went into a deep dissociation state in the beginning of 6th grade and im graduating 9th now and it's never really gone away and ik there are people who have this, it's different for all of us, this song really gives me chills and because like have u ever felt like u were just spectating your life? and like your there but half of you is just not there anymore and yk your surrounds are real but they dont feel real and it feels like your in a dream but yk your not, idk sorry for this shitty rant and i hope that you all have a beautiful day and just are able to be in the moment and i love you

[connorb.]

I just had an emotional breakdown to this last night and today I actually feel better so like, , I don't know. I just really really appreciate this song/her music.

[bymaxxie]

0:05 That sound and the voice after that says something like "you" is perfect

[phoebehutchinson]

I remember listening to this song the year it came out. I was a sophomore in high school. I didn't know how much her music would shape my life.

[xarmanhsh]

Here before this song eventually makes its way into a bunch of series and people come here from there

[maxrichards]

One spotify suggestion and this is my new comfort song

[sylvzacal]

1:30 this has no right to sound so good.

[jamintorpe]

most of the times I just lay on my bedroom floor smoking a cigarette while listening to this song <3

[annalanglois]

i want someone to make me feel like this song makes me feel

[xarmanhsh]

Wtf is this masterpiece. And people think good music is gone ..

[Evelyn-bdsv]

Bro this used to be my favorite song ever in the whole world. I would listen to it like everyday. I still love it now ❤❤❤

[haillyclark]

I was trying to find smoke signals the movie but came to this

I’m happy I found this

[mistysky]

Just checking out to hide from life
And all of our problems, I'm gonna solve 'em

[strangerthings]

It just makes me think of the future. How if it was possible if I could meet my future self and see my past self.

[ayeshaansar]

olivia rodrigos fav artist list brought me here!
when the name phoebe bridgers was listed next to taylor, halsey, gracie abrams and lorde i knew i had to listen

[nahomycalix]

Siempre estare feliz y completa de regresar aqui cada año.

[casey]

i'm looking for the teaser of cavetown and tessa's new song "Smoking Signals" and now i'm here