Chocolate Cigarettes

Edith Piaf was the Little Sparrow

She flew high above the Paris streets

Saint of the bars and bistros

Chanteuse of a tear-stained sheet

She sang for the drunks and the sailor boys

Who'd sunk as low as low can get

I read she kicked a three-pack habit once

On chocolate cigarettes



And she didn't have a smoke

Though she wanted one

Didn't take a drink

Though it hurt her some

She stared across the

River Seine hummin'

"No Regrets" Pullin' on a chocolate cigarette



Oh, those chocolate cigarettes I've seen 'em in my youth

There beside the Hershey bars,

The Almond Joys, the Baby Ruths

I kicked a three-pack habit once I won a hundred dollar bet

With the help of chewin' gum

And



And I didn't have a smoke

Though I wanted one I didn't take a drink

Though it hurt me some I thought of

Little Sparrow hummin'

"No Regrets" Pullin' on a chocolate cigarette



It's an Edith Piaf night tonight

As I put her records on

All that smoky passion

In every line of every song

Old love affairs and wasteful habits

We'll all survive them yet

Memories drown in coffee grounds

And chocolate cigarettes



She didn't have a smoke

Though she wanted one

She didn't take a drink

Though it hurt her some

She stared across the River Seine hummin'

"No Regrets"

Pullin' on a chocolate cigarette Pullin' on a chocolate cigarette