
…a thing to do
With how I live 'cause I won't die
By cigarettes or lightning
Unless it strikes inside my mind
And my body idles glowing
[Chorus…
…]
Braiding silk on my spine
Back burned in flickering light
I left my outline up in sweetwater more occupied
From a hollow tree
I've been…
…to die, I am not living
[Chorus]
Braiding silk on my spine
Arms burned in flickering light
I found my shadow down on Pine Island…

…Cigarettes, weed, and low vibes and latex
Met a girl after show rocking fake tits
So I took her to the Holiday, I'm on the seventh floor…
…ayy
Every night's a holiday and she wanna do blow, ayy
Meaning that she popped a lot but I don't wanna know
Light flickering…
…feel presidential
Lights flickering on and off, I watch you come closer
Then I feel your hands press against my shoulders, yeah…

Take a long drag
As you walk downtown
And as I catch my breath
You appear from a cloud of cigarettes
You listen and you disregard…
The light in your eyes is flickering
But are you listening?
Are you listening?
Tell me that you're bored to death
With a skyline that you never…
…left
The light in your eyes is flickering
But are you listening?
Are you listening?
Hold your head up, Hannah
Hold your head up…

…[Verse 1]
Take a long drag
As you walk downtown
And as I catch my breath
You'd appear from a cloud of cigarettes
You listen…
…to death
In the skyline that you never left
The light in your eyes is flickering
But are you listening?
Are you listening?
Tell me…
…that you're bored to death
With a skyline that you never left
The light in your eyes is flickering
But are you listening…

…with the devil and man all she do is grind
Standing on the table and she flickering the lights
Simmering like cigarettes from…

The flashlight shot right through your flickering heart
People's movements round you fall apart
Cackle out…
…to your feet
Like raw meat
They move slowly - how they bore me, live so slowly
Phosphor drowns in cigarettes breathless smoke…

Meaning is sometimes hard to spot
It begins with the flickering of cigarettes
In the darkness of a dorm room
Somewhere…

The film smears over the water, orange and black, flickering : off, on, off.
As the summer rain fails to cool me down or clean me…
…& your mouth not & stinging against mine.
The trees against the sky, drippling backly into our faces, my mouth fills your with the taste of cigarettes…

…then, what's your poison? Are you even listening?
Sat there with your fish bites and your eye lids flickering
Taking photos…
…in a hot dress
Convo isn't flowing
His mind is focused on other things like
When is it the time to initiate?
Got a very big ego and a pack of cigarettes…

…then, what's your poison? Are you even listening?
Sat there with your fish bites and your eye lids flickering
Taking photos…
Convo isn't flowing
His mind is focused on other things like
When is it the time to initiate?
Got a very big ego and a pack of cigarettes…

It's 5 am and I'm so tired I can't sleep
I've played all the games I know
The neon outside my window is flickering
You're still…
…out and I'm annoyed
Oh see, I've been changing lovers too
Oh, I've been changing lovers
I've smoked all your cigarettes…

…the bigger the name, the bigger the game
I spent long nights hunched over a flickering flame
Perfecting this particular slang, I'm sick in the brain
I'm on it, I seen…
…worth three loosies
A pair of chicken wings, cigarettes, two juices
They make new nooses, and everybody know what the truth is
And that's what Black Thought from the Roots is
Icon…

Meaning is sometimes hard to spot
It begins with the flickering of cigarettes
In the darkness of a dorm room
Somewhere…
By Pegz (2011)
On album Drama (2011)

…cigarettes and a goon bag
Sixty three cents and a pocket of food stamps
I'd do anything to have you back
For that first night…
…and I, to align synthesis
Fewer than city lights, suicide witnesses
Blue lights flickering, moon light glistening
Illuminating life, purified…

…]
Flickering holograms, a hollow heart, hollow man
Sat doing fuck all then laughing like it's gone to plan
Contraband gets abused…
…of what they churning up
Just another so-and-so poncing cigarettes
And feeling bitterness but forever talking 'bout us indirect
Living…