TOP FIVE SONGS ABOUT OR INVOLVING CIGARETTES
1.) "Take Me to the River," Syl Johnson or the Talking Heads
There are two relationship scenarios that absolutely terrify me: breaking up with a boy who retaliates by selling my library to the second-hand bookstore, and being asked to quit smoking.
2.) "All Rooms Cable A/C Free Coffee," the Extra Glenns
Wine and honey, lipstick and spit, / I see you coming through the door with a cigarette lit. / I'm not supposed to think your death wish is cool, / But then I see you knocking back tequilas by the pool. The Extra Glenns, if you don't know, are John Darnielle and Franklin Bruno. Bruno also makes the Top Five Heroin Songs of All Time with "Clean Needle": All I want to be is your clean needle, keep you safe and high...
3.) "She Only Smokes When She Drinks," Joe Nichols
She only smokes when she drinks, she only drinks now and then, / Now and then when she's tired of being let down by men...
4.) "Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)," the O'Jays
My parents still tell the story of the time they drove out to Chincoteague at three in the morning and caught a truly bizarre radio show coming out of some college station. Apparently it sounded like they'd pulled a homeless guy off the streets and stuck him in the booth, and he kept saying things like "This one goes out to my man Nasty Dawg." He introduced this number with "This is the O'Jays, but not that new disco shit."
5.) "Slack Motherfucker," Superchunk
You haven't moved from that spot all night / Since you asked for a light, / You little smokestack. A little Carolina pride. Always to be followed by Earlimart's "We Drink on the Job."
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