You Don’t Want That Smoke
You Don’t Want That Smoke Lyrics
She's got the look
Damn right she owns it
She'll break your heart in this bar and she knows it
She'll ask you for a light
Keeps one in her pocket
She'll getcha' just enough to get you walkin'
Right outside, into the night
Watch the sparks fly from a Marlboro light
[Chorus]
But you don't want that smoke
The kind that's in her past
She'll love you till the filter
And leave you in the ash
Take it secondhand
From a fool who knows
You think you're just taking a drag
But you're playin' with a fire that'll burn you if you get too close
You don't want that smoke
[Verse 2]
Yeah she'll get you hooked
Might even call you "baby"
But she's a one way ticket that drops you off at crazy
Yeah she'll take your hand
Might even cloud your head
But if you breath her in
You'll be breathing out an SOS
And you don't want that smoke
The kind that's in her past
She'll love you till the filter
And leave you in the ash
Take it secondhand
From a fool who knows
You think you're just taking a drag
But you're playin' with a fire that'll burn you if you get too close
And you don't want that smoke
You don't want that smoke
Take it secondhand
I been her fool before
You think you're just taking a drag
But you're playin' with a fire that'll burn you if you get too close
[Outro]
She's got the look
And I've got the lighter
And I'm drunk enough to bum off of her tonight
Won't be the first
Won't be the last
You can judge me all you want
But you can't say that
You don't want that smoke
About
Written with fellow country music artist Tucker Beathard and songwriter Jimi Bell
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That song came to me in a text from a random number. I didn’t have the number saved. I’d never texted them before. They had never texted me. And it was just a song. I clicked on it one day right before [I took a] shower and put it on. I went to go get in the shower and then I stopped. I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, what is this?’ The chair’s scooting up before he starts the guitar on the demo. The demo is awesome. Then [I realised] it was Jimi Bell who sent it to me and said, ‘Hey, me and Tucker [Beathard] wrote this. What do you think of it?’ And I’m like, ‘Dude, smash. I love this song. Holy cow! I’m about to get in the shower, man, so I put it on hold and they said I could cut it. And it took me a whole day and whole night to cut that
song, just getting the texture right, because it’s such a quiet song. I just cut it and cut it and
cut it.
- 1.Religiously
- 2.Warzone
- 5.Chase Her
- 6.Fall In Love
- 7.You Don’t Want That Smoke
- 11.Pain Won’t Last
- 12.Where It Ends
- 14.Fadeaway
