The Last Cigarette-Ed Harcourt

[ti:The Last Cigarette] [ar:Ed Harcourt] [al:The Beautiful Lie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Last Cigarette - Ed Harcourt [00:18.74]Found his memoirs in an old junk shop [00:22.12]Dated from 1916 [00:24.75] [00:25.36]Sentenced to death while still shell-shocked [00:27.21] [00:28.33]For deserting the infantry [00:30.70] [00:31.98]Blindfold on and one step back [00:35.25]No need to get upset [00:38.86]Don't be hasty with the trigger boys [00:42.19]Let him smoke his one last cigarette [00:46.50] [01:04.12]Down in the hospital on the 9th ward [01:07.33]An old man scratches his head [01:10.10] [01:10.90]Reaches into his bedside drawer [01:14.01]Waits 'til the nurse is downstairs [01:16.71] [01:17.69]I'm nearly cured I've been so brave [01:20.54] [01:21.58]There's no need to fret [01:23.34] [01:24.71]I'm gonna really quit this time [01:27.37] [01:28.08]Let me smoke my one last cigarette [01:31.27] [01:45.62]Straight as a corkscrew [01:48.37] [01:49.02]As bright as the night [01:52.45]Blind to the horror [01:54.95]Blind to the very horror of this sorry life [01:59.22] [02:16.87]The awkward girl with a broken heart [02:20.21]Smashes her mirror until it fracture [02:23.59]Leaning down she picks up a shard [02:26.74]And ponders to question her actions [02:30.08]A selfish act she's full aware [02:33.68]But the best one she's done yet [02:37.09]With tired eyes and steady hands [02:40.58]She'll smoke her one last cigarette [02:45.01] [02:53.37]Straight as a corkscrew [02:56.88]As bright as the night [03:00.34]Blind to the horror [03:03.03]Blind to the very horror of this sorry life [03:07.26] [03:09.93]Blind to the very horror of this sorry life [03:15.45] [03:16.69]Blind to the very horror of this sorry life