Dying for a Cigarette (Let ’Em Burn)

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I didn't wanna keep taking your smokes So I bought a packet Of Peter Stuyvesant Classics and that was that We all know what can happen Now there's no going back And Tthe more I had the more that I had to have it So here I am recording on a 15-year habit Everywhere I go I'm going at it knowing that I'm runnin' Lower in the packet So catch me at the counter of your BP Coughing up for this nicotine Even if the government been upping the tax The cost was not enough To stop some of us from coming back for more And you don't wanna see me going through these withdrawals Sure I got I could make the call Quitline 13 7848 If I ever do decide Just give me a bit more time and a BIC lighter Anyone who might've lit this fire knows That it can burn in the back of your mind and take you over Swear I was never gonna be a smoker in my thirties Yet here I am with a lit Cigarette in my hand Thinking, damn I don't want to see my light going out early (Let 'em burn, let 'em burn let 'em burn) [Verse 2] I made the same mistakes as Gramps did And Gramps quit I bought a packet of Nicabate patches Used to peel off the plastic patch And reattach it Catch me at that moment Doing what I shouldn't Maybe it was looking at these hands And not knowing what to do with them That got me feeling lost Like without it it's a loss And I'm losin' it Truth is I gave the Zyban prescription a look in But didn't get it, never took it Thinkin' maybe that I should've I mean I've seen what the Emphysema can do A slow way to suffocate made her lips turn blue And still I'm turning to you in a time of need Like A COPD might be right for me I need to get the respiratory tested I need to whiten these teeth What I need an appointment for the dentist "Your oral hygiene is important" Yes, this is what they said Me I kept on avoidin' Don't remember the last checkup and clean Swigging on a bottle of Listerine to get that breath back to its freshest And you can sugar coat it with all the Extras that you like Cosmetics ain't got shit on what's going on in the inside How many cigarettes does it take for us to die? No one wants cancer And I'm trying to make it out alive Wasn't meant to be the type to rely upon a Lucky Strike Shit I don't know why I can't justify just to try I've tried the E-Cigs and the patches Hypnotherapy and The Champix Oral spray and that the list goes on An ex-smoker friend said, "When its what you really want then you will find a way" Even if it's not the easy way to stop It was not new information to me But it plays on my mind like a beat and I'm keep that on repeat (Let 'em burn, let 'em burn let 'em burn Let 'em burn, let 'em burn let 'em burn Let 'em burn, let 'em burn let 'em burn Let 'em burn, let 'em burn let 'em burn Let 'em burn, let 'em burn let 'em burn Let 'em burn, let 'em burn let 'em burn) [Verse 3] Chewing on some Nicorette gum Thinking for me this could be the one The longest that I've been Said its been three months Feel the breath of fresh air filling up these lungs Fuck it, feel like giving hugs to the trees for all that they gave us From the papers to the oxygen that they came with And even though I'm still searching for ways to relax To slow it down take a deep breath stay ahead of the pack I know that we on track And if we fuck it up we fuck it up that's just a setback Remember that no more gingivitis No more trying to find your lighter No more all the time tired No more getting burnt by that fire And still, it might feels like the farewell of a friend But my lung capacity gone up by 22 percent I don't know exactly what that means But indeed it feels like some kind of achievement Just to keep breathin'