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The Cigarette Song

Smoked a lot of cigarettes, filled my lungs up with regret

But I got a second chance, I put down those cancer sticks.

Never should have picked them up but they say what’s done is done.

But I’m done with slavery, feelin’ better every day.

I said I’d quit a time or two before, but I’d always bum another from a friend,

Because moderation meant just one more, so I hope I never smoke one again.

No more holding hands with death, had to stop and catch my breath.

No more coughing in the cold stranded on Tobacco Road.

Used to smoke them in the car when my favorite song came on.

With a coffee or a beer, after nearly every meal.

Feeling like a hypocrite and making corporations rich, in exchange they make me sick, anyway you pay for it.

They sell them to you overpriced; medical bills start to rise.

Life’s a drag but surely, I can find a cheaper way to die.

I remember fits of nicotine wishing’ every cigarette would never end.

But it seems like lately I need room to breathe so I hope I never smoke one again

But when it comes down to it, some folks just don’t want to quit

and that’s their prerogative, I can’t tell you how to live.

But I hope that you survive, hope I’ve bought myself some time,

hope we make it out alive or at least ‘til 95.

I’m through with throwing’ half a pack away then the next day digging’ through the garbage can.

Because I’m an addict what else can I say but I hope I never smoke one,

I hope I never smoke one, I hope I never smoke one again.