cigarettes and gasoline

words and music by tod davies

there was something i wanted to make for you
but i needed it to rain
the rain came and went
now it's coming again

i want to gather up everything
printed with ink that'll run or bleed
i'm going to lay it out
and let the rain wash it away

then i'm going to layer paint
over all the washed out sheets
all the drawings and notes
all the little things i made
when you still loved me

i'll let the rain pound down
and make geology in the color streaks
of bright and dark and underneath
all the words and shapes
that love conceived

there'll be hills and gulfs and valleys
of red and black and green and the bedrock
white and gray will peak through
where the rain hits hardest

then i'll throw on cigarettes and gasoline
and i'll burn it all up
just like we do everything else
that we mistakenly believe we need
i'll burn it up like we did you and me
and then i'll be right back where i started
with just a dream of what i wanted

cigaretes and gasoline
we burn them up like we do everything else
that we mistakenly believe we need
we burn them up like we did you and me
and then we wind up where we started
with just a dream of what we wanted

Category:

Music

Tags:

• tod
• davies
• cigarettes
• and
• gasoline
• singer
• songwriter
• guitar
• folk
• music

[saimonson]

please tod answer if you have an album

[pterygota]

I've got some recordings ... don't know what to do with them though ...

[saimonson]

je ne m'en lasse pas cette chanson est juste magnifique

[Abelle92]

this guy is Tod Davies

[Abelle92]

This is definitly my favorite song of yours. Do you have any albums out?

[VeronicaBlush]

damn this guy is good! i've never heard the original but it reminds me of Springsteen the way he presents it.

[roobak91]

basic thinks, good music

[jjmckool]

Who's Tod Davies?