We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Love Like A Cigarette

by Lesser Strays

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

1.
I dreamed about you behind lips that never kissed you You were like a movie on the screen so far from me What do you want from the night I’d be right there if you gave me the right Always flying away, transatlantic to another day I want to get back to the summer, I want to be something like lovers I want to give you my secrets, I want to give you my sad heart California wine can’t turn back time You’ve long left the hometown. Who’s holding you now? Do you want to find me again? Like I want to find you again? Only God knows where It’s a long, long year. Too long for you I fear How many songs would I write for you? Til I realize you’re not coming round-it’s not true I want to get back to the summer, I want to be something like lovers I want to give you my secrets, I want to give you my sad heart California wine can’t turn back time You’ve long left the hometown. Who’s holding you now? Do you want to find me again? Like I want to find you again? Only God knows where
2.
Last night these drugs let you in my dreams I was trying to find you, your friends hid you from me Oh it’s a bitter past we’ve known with nobody in the right I didn’t know you’d render me alone, since two years ago tonight I didn’t know I was so weak to let your silence destroy me The doctor says it’s just the drugs that got me wanting your buried love I let you go before, I’ll you go again Your haunting spirit it’s no friend Though you’ve painted my cavern soul colors of beauty and light I didn’t know you’d render me alone, since two years ago tonight I didn’t know I was so weak to let your silence destroy me The doctor says it’s just the drugs that got me wanting your buried love
3.
Ashes 05:18
Hear me now even if we’re strangers I still feel the strength between us Like I felt with any friend who made it to my heart And where are you anyway tonight as I send my voice To invisible angels addressed to your lips Will my poems born for you ever depart Love like a cigarette storming in my lungs You’re flashing in the spotlight beautiful and young The smoke between us a veil over your skin Fire turns to ashes like every dream within Touch my skin and even if I shiver You’re a mountain of flame baptize me with your rivers Where your love flows down through the valley Of your body from your heart When the flame dies out will you light us up a new one When the ashes fall down will you plant them in the ground Or spread the dust around
4.
Cool Kids 04:00
That cool kid attracts those cruel girls Smoking cigarettes and ruling the world He’s got three chords against my mumbling words of sorrow If she didn’t love me today, she’ll still love him tomorrow That intentional dirty lifestyle, I always found quite phony But I’m just the devils advocate, mad about being lonely Yes I may think you’re a faker, but we don’t need to fight Cause God knows I’d do anything to take his place tonight And that intentional dirty lifestyle, I always found quite phony But I’m a spokesman for the phantoms mad about being lonely The new trends all out there in the street People wear it over their hearts everywhere they meet City girls like you don’t use razors so they all feel more free and keep in hairy company That intentional dirty lifestyle, I always found quite phony But I’m just the devils advocate, mad about being lonely
5.
I’d step outside and start my life again, but everything I see is spinning The world is a river, your angels are flowing, the water is frigid, I don’t feel like swimming I need Mrs. Strangelove to save my life I’d pick up the green books I read in college and make some bread bucks with it The world is my oyster, I cannot open, that lost pearl, I won’t miss it I need Mrs. Strangelove to save my life She serves me tea and poetry She makes me love for breakfast Mrs. Strangelove are you lonely too tonight? I was a dreamer and also a doer, now I’ve forgotten both of those trades My world is a lawn locked in the suburbs, the sun don’t reach me through my dark shades I need Mrs. Strangelove to save my life She serves me tea and poetry She makes me love for breakfast Mrs. Strangelove are you lonely too tonight?
6.
Flowers 05:43
I laid down a bed of roses like all the romeos in her courtyard Cut the thorns out of superstition, waited in line for her prize heart She got married when school ended, lost the deepness of fantasy They say her heart was weak anyway, made worthy by her beauty We caught her, we solved the case Now she cries weekday mornings, daydreams over an empty vase Of flowers that won’t die, flowers that won’t die Time’s falling through the sky, we’re losing pieces of the pie Are there flowers that don’t die? These years are so much harder when I feel my best love is behind How can I ever build a sweet home when darkness is my design Lay me down in a field of colors so they bleed white through my white shirt I want to kiss you before I die, I know I’m living if it still hurts We caught her, we solved the case Now she cries weekday mornings, daydreams over an empty vase Of flowers that won’t die, flowers that won’t die Time’s falling through the sky, we’re losing pieces of the pie Are there flowers that don’t die?
7.
When I was young I was happy and starry-eyed The sky was pink the sea was purple Now the light falls through wrinkles in my face And every year is just a circle She left last night at midnight out the door I just put on a record, smoked a cigarette on the floor And her touch went from the skin straight to the brain You get your heart mixed up in it, your blood will go insane You won’t get a rise out of me I’ve stopped wondering what it means to be free Well shucks babe it won’t be long til we lose the places we belong I once was drunk and wild and free and love felt like a mystery These heart attacks kill my dreams and everything feels just exactly the way that it seems I don’t expect to live very long then again I can’t expect it to all go wrong But I don’t expect to live very long
8.
Wolves 05:15
Trying to stay alive for my mother’s sake Cause nobody should host their child’s wake So I went looking for Jesus and my inner child Tried to free my soul back into the wild The troubles I have are troubles well known But some lack the strength when the teeth hit the bone I got wolves howling behind me as if life’s too frail to last Wolves howling behind me like a cancer of the past These wolves outrun my shaky knees I was looking for your love did you know that? I was whispering your name behind your back There’s a big hole in me. Can it go on forever? Would you take me in your home and pull me pack together? The troubles I have are troubles well known But some lack the strength when the teeth hit the bone I got wolves howling over me as if life’s too frail to last Wolves howling over me like a cancer of the past These wolves outrun my shaky knees I’ve been up way past midnight, I sleep in all day I feel like I’m missing something between the womb and the grave Trying to stay alive for my mother’s sake Cause nobody should host their child’s wake I got wolves howling over me as if life’s too frail to last Wolves howling over me
9.
Rhymes 05:16
Though I may not kiss her lips or take the throne of her heart I’ll picture her how I cannot help, my honey my baby my missing part I’ll reclaim the love I’ve lost through time Send it to her on a fleet of rhymes She’s sleeping in Ohio and so far from my arms I’m west of Colorado thinking of her charm I’ll reclaim the love I’ve lost through time Send it to her on a fleet of rhymes Though I may not know her life or be her the crux in the dark I’ll dream of her as lovers do in the glow of a fires spark Over mountains white and midwest plains I’ll send a stream of stars from my love in vain, oh the pain She’s sleeping in Ohio and so far from my arms I’m west of Colorado thinking of her charm For every mile away there’s a thousand things to say She’ll think I’m half crazy to speak that way
10.
Roma 03:56
Now the good days are all behind me, no different than the dreams I wake up from in the morning as the shower starts to steam Bring me back to Roma, the young girls and reggaeton They were all so beautiful and they danced until the dawn And I know that I want to be there, I don’t know that I would stay In any moment behind me of any single day It’s a sad feeling when desire is not revealing Take me back to Roma where I don’t think of the future Take me back to Roma where I feel like a holy creature The monuments of history are sinking to the street In the light of the hotel rooms where one shot lovers meet And I’m dreaming of an old love wishing it was new But I’ve burnt up all my poetry and painted roses blue Take me back to Roma where I don’t think of the future Take me back to Roma where I feel like a holy creature

about

The 2nd LP release by Lesser Strays

credits

released February 19, 2017

All songs written and recorded by Josh Petroni

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Lesser Strays San Diego, California

An indie rock project founded in 2013 by Josh Petroni; Lesser Strays has released 4 EPs, 2 full-length albums.
In 2014 Lesser Strays' first show was played at the Hawthorne Theater in Portland, OR and has called a variety of cities home from San Diego, Portland, Milan, and Nashville.
... more

contact / help

Contact Lesser Strays

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Lesser Strays, you may also like: