"Eli the Camel," by Ferlin Husky (Ferlin Husky!!), is about the the camel on the front of a pack of Camel cigarettes and how he never gets to the oasis that you can see in the background - he's destined to stay in the foreground forever, sweating in the sun
"Kaw-Liga" - also tobacco-themed - is about a cigar-store Indian who falls in love with a similarly wooden Indian maid in his antique store, but he never tells her he loves her - because he's made of wood
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)
You used me like an ashtray heart
Case of the punks
Right from the start
I feel like a glass shrimp in a pink panty
With a saccharine chaperone
Make invalids out of supermen
Call in a "shrink"
And pick you up in a girdle
You used me like an ashtray heart
Right from the start
Case of the punks
Another day, another way
Somebody's had too much to think
Open up another case of the punks
Each pillow is touted like a rock
The mother / father figure
Somebody's had too much to think
Send your mother home your navel
Case of the punks
New hearts to the dining rooms
Violet heart cake
Dissolve in new cards, boards, throats, underwear
Ashtray heart
You picked me out, brushed me off
Crushed me while I was burning out
Then you picked me out
Like an ashtray heart
Hid behind the curtain
Waited for me to go out
A man on a porcupine fence
Used me for an ashtray heart
Hit me where the lover hangs out
Stood behind the curtain
While they crushed me out
You used me for an ashtray heart
You looked in the window when I went out
You used me like an ashtray heart.
(Ashtray Heart - Captain Beefheart)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 13 May 2004 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)
"two cigarettes in an ashtray...
my love and i in a small cafe
then a stranger came along,
and everything went wrong
now there's three cigarettes in the ashtray
i watched her take him from me...
now his love is no longer my own.
now they are gone,
and i sit alone
and watch one cigarette burn away"
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)