Cigarette Days

Cigarette Days

Pace by the phone

I’d stand alone just to sit next to you

Naive enough

Succumb to lust and crawl back into 

Knife to the bone

Life turned to stone and

Those were the cigarette days

Dancing the nicotine craze

Blue eyes dilated and glazed

Sophomoric wannabe sage

Cut grass and gas

Too cute by half but it’s all absolute

Blood harmony

We fell the tree just to taste the fruit

My checkered past

Does nothing last but

Those were the cigarette days

Dancing the nicotine craze

Blue eyes dilated and glazed

Sophomoric wannabe sage

Those were the cigarette days

Obscene and violent praise

Blinding ambiguous haze 

Dry air and visible grays

Those were the cigarette days

Dancing the nicotine craze

Blue eyes dilated and glazed

Sophomoric wannabe sage

Those were the cigarette days

Obscene and violent praise

Blinding ambiguous haze 

Dry air and visible grays

Those were the cigarette days

Those were the cigarette days

Those were the cigarette days

Those were the cigarette days

Release date: June 10, 2022

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Photo credit: Shari Carr