It's likely that the line "life is a cigarette" and that paragraph is inspired by a poem by a Spanish poet named Manuel Machado, which has an opening line that translates as that.
:) I made such a connection when I read that the Bowie song "Rock N' Roll Suicide" was inspired by this poem, but in a less obvious way. So maybe in fact Supergrass were informed by Bowie rather than directly inspired by the poet.
It's likely that the line "life is a cigarette" and that paragraph is inspired by a poem by a Spanish poet named Manuel Machado, which has an opening line that translates as that.
:) I made such a connection when I read that the Bowie song "Rock N' Roll Suicide" was inspired by this poem, but in a less obvious way. So maybe in fact Supergrass were informed by Bowie rather than directly inspired by the poet.