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Artist: Brian Jonestown Massacre
Canonical path: /brian-jonestown-massacre/ashtray
Related lyric paths: 6
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Ashtray
Read Ashtray lyrics by Brian Jonestown Massacre on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Ashtray
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Staring at a cigarette
Burns until there's nothing left
See your eyes are flaming red
Pictures from when I was dead
Here I am a stupid man
Cast away the things I love
Tears are falling to the floor, to join a hundred thousand more
How was I supposed to know that when I'd turn around you'd go
How was I supposed to know
How was I to know that I'd be wrong
In your hand a cigarette
Burns until there's nothing left
Saw your eyes they're flaming red
Begin to roll you roll your head
Here I am a stupid man lost the only thing I love
Here the tears are falling down
Hear the water running on the ground
How was I supposed to know I'd turn around you'd go
How was I supposed to know
How was I to know that I'd be wrong
How was I to know that I'd be wrong
How was I to know that I'd be wrong
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