Cigarette

there are lots of different interpretations of this song, i think it's about a man lossind his wife, but it is imagery, ban is loosing the big things he has worked his whole life for, they are dragging him down as well as themselves, and it hurts, so, eventually, the whole thing just sort of burns down!

This song is pretty deep I think. It's really beautiful but sad too. It's bittersweet. I love Ben Folds Five but I don't know what a lot of their songs mean. Thanks! ~~Tessa~~

There were a few mistakes made here, these are the real lyrics.

Fred Jones was worn down from caring for his often screaming and crying wife durning the day but He couldn't sleep at night for fear that she In a stupor from the drugs that didn't
ease the pain would set the house ablaze with a cigarette.

It's a song about a man whose wife has mental and substance problems. Maybe she takes tranquilizers but it doesn't help their relationship or solve her problems. And of all of the drugs that she uses, the one that puts them all at risk are those damn cigarettes.

this song is about a man who's wife had a brain hemorrhage and became a completely different person. he was trying to figure out if he should get a divorce since she was essentially not the same person that he married.

Actually, this is the exact wording of a newspaper article Ben Folds clipped out of a newspaper. Notice how the lyrics aren't included, and they aren't even included in the official songbook, because they aren't his to print.

sweet. short, and to the point

I made a mistake too. It's "during", not "durning".

D'oh.

I think that this song is about a man whose wife is dieing of cancer, and who was on Chemo, but it wasn't helping. This is one of the saddest songs I know, and it alone is enough to convince me to not smoke.

Paul Finch is exactly write. Yeha the lyrics are missing fom score if you buy it