Four Cigarettes - Malcolm Middleton

You are the end

You are the light

You are the reason

I’m up late tonight

I think about you sleeping

With your legs on my side

Of the bed and you’re dreaming

Putting up a fight

Against the world

And what we know is right

We’ll break away somehow

I’ll be running at your side

We need to get away

Get away to someplace

That nobody’s ever

Bothered about

And everything we do

And everything we say

Will be the first time it’s ever

Happened that way

We’re four cigarettes away

From having to leave the house

Got to make them last

'Til the sun goes down

Waiting for the dark

So we can come to life

Waiting for a laugh

Or lightening to strike

I just remembered

I’ve forgot where I am

I just had a nightmare

That I’d stopped dreaming

So what happened there?

And where did that go?

I’ve sweated out ambition

Done with longing gone fishing

In a river that is dry

Through a land that is ageing

De-accelerating

Quietly deflating

You know I’m trying

To find my way

I don’t remember luck

I don’t remember luck

I remember failure

After failure, after failure

I’m drinking too much

I’m running away

We’re four cigarettes away

From having to leave the house

Got to make them last

'Til the sun goes down

Waiting for the dark

So we can come to life

Waiting for a laugh

Or lightening to strike

We’re four cigarettes away

From having to leave the house

Got to make them last

'Til the sun goes down

Waiting for the dark

So we can come to life

Waiting for a laugh

Or lightening to strike