Nicotine

Breath tastes like ash in the morning

Sunrise drips through a cracked window

Yesterday's sins still crawling

In my lungs where the poison grows

Nicotine you're my chain

Drag me down again again

Nicotine you're my shame

Burning slow beneath my skin

Fingers shake when the night falls heavy

Chasing ghosts in the cigarette glow

This hunger ain't kind it's deadly

I can't quit what I can't let go

Every drag feels like the last

But the need it hits so fast

Nicotine you're my chain

Drag me down again again

Nicotine you're my shame

Burning slow beneath my skin

Pack of lies rolled tight in paper

Promises made then burned away

A prison cell I built with vapor

Still I light it every day