Cigarette Lighter Love Song Lyrics
I can feel you moving over there
You've been playing with the seam
In your worn-out underwear
My lips are raw as hell
From biting on them just to stay awake
It's not like I'm gonna need them
You won't be around
To see them bleed and break
So I'll just think about you 'til there's nothing in my head
All I can do is try not to screw this up again
And just be friends
I'd rather be dead
With a headache the size of my car
I called to say I was okay anyway
'Cause I know how you are
I'm like a movie without an ending
You know I've got nowhere to go
And it makes me wanna throw up
To see you wanna give up
More than you'll ever know
So I'll just think about you 'til there's nothing in my head
All I can do is try not to screw this up again
And just be friends
I'd rather be dead
But the record keeps skipping and the needle keeps bending
Like the road I'm driving to the bridge that has no end
I wanna take back everything that I've broken
But the bridges behind me are burnin' and smokin'
I guess this is the end
So I'll just think about you 'til there's nothing in my head
All I can do is try not to screw this up again
And just be friends
I'd rather be dead
Coming from a guy who has a tendency to end up "the friend" this song talks about walking the thin line of a relationship with a girl he really cares about.
This song is so beautiful. The bridge gives me chills. And, of course, it's SO amazing live.
this song is about his girlfriend who just sometimes isn't there for him..possibly because she doesn't care for him as much as he cares for her. but everything and everpart of his day reminds him of her and he has given up on trying to make her stay
When I saw Butch perform, he said that this was a song he wrote for a friend of his who was going through a divorce. It ended up being a song about the breakup of The Marvelous 3.
Yeah it's so weird to listen to this song in the context of the Marvelous 3's breakup when I've listened to it all these years in the context of a relationship. It still gives me chills, maybe even moreso now.
It's about Marvelous 3 breaking up, but written as a metaphor for a relationship. Butch explains it on his solo live record This Is Me...Justified and Stripped.
The first line of the chorus "All that I do..." is pretty much a direct rip of the first line of of the chorus in "All The Young Dudes" by Mott the Hoople.
Par example:
All that I do/comes back to you vs. All the young dudes/carry the news
I mean...come on!
Anyway I'm sure it was Butch's way of paying tribute to his glam rock forefathers, but I can't help but think about it every time I hear "Cigarette".