Cigarette Sweets

By Janet Devlin

On Emotional Rodeo

Released on November 15, 2024

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[Verse 1]

The cool kid on the street

Freshly turned 15

A box of Daddy's Camels

Rolled up in their sleeve

Counting down the days

Threw our childhood away

Oh, I wish I never kissed goodbye to sugar cane

And there's no going back now


[Chorus]

Remember when we used to smoke cigarette sweets

Tryin' to look grown up we'd toke on little candies

Now there's 'baccy in my lungs

No sugar on my tongue

Take me back to when we used to smoke cigarette sweets

Oh, take mе back to when we used to smokе cigarette sweets


[Verse 2]

Turned my fingertips to gold

Like an alchemist of old

Habits over happiness

The years I lost I rolled

The apple doesn't fall too far

From the family tree

And the water of the womb

Won't wash my dirty genes


[Chorus]

Remember when we used to smoke cigarette sweets

Tryin' to look grown up we'd toke on little candies

Now there's 'baccy in my lungs

No sugar on my tongue

Take me back to when we used to smoke cigarette sweets

Oh, take me back to when we used to smoke cigarette sweets


[Bridge]

Time's supposed to heal you

But I bruise like a peach

Life's a back street dealer

Got me hooked on nicotine

We'd see it on TV

In every magazine

Like the models in the movies

Perfect boobs and lighting doobies


[Chorus]

Remember when we used to smoke cigarette sweets

Tryin' to look grown up we'd toke on little candies

Now there's 'baccy in my lungs

No sugar on my tongue

Take me back to when we used to smoke cigarette sweets

Oh, take me back to when we used to smoke cigarette sweets