Smoke Rings in the Dark

Album: Smoke Rings in the Dark (1999)
Charted: 76
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  • Well I won't make you tell me what I've come to understand
    You're a certain kind of woman, I'm a different kind of man
    I've tried to make you love me, you've tried to find a spark
    Of the flame that burned and somehow turned to smoke rings in the dark

    The loneliness within me takes a heavy toll
    'Cause it burns as slow as whiskey through an empty aching soul
    And the night is like a dagger, long and cold and sharp
    As I sit here on the front steps blowing smoke rings in the dark

    I know I must be going
    'Cause love's already gone
    And all I'm taking with me are the pieces of my heart
    And all I'll leave are smoke rings in the dark

    The rain falls where it wants to, the wind blows where it will
    Everything on earth goes somewhere, but I swear we're standing still
    So I'm not going to wake you, I'll go easy on your heart
    I'll just touch your face and drift away like smoke rings in the dark

    I know I must be going
    'Cause love's already gone
    And all I'm taking with me are the pieces of my heart
    And all I'll leave are smoke rings in the dark Writer/s: Boyd Houston Robert, Melvern Rivers Rutherford II
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyHere's some obscure trivia:
    On January 21st 1908, the New York City Board of Aldermen passed the Sullivan Ordinance, making smoking by women illegal; two weeks later Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. vetoed the measure...
    And ninety-one years later in 1999 Gary Allan's "Smoke Rings In the Dark" peaked at #12 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart; it reached #5 on the Canadian Country Singles chart and #76 on the Hot Top 100 chart...
    He has had four #1 records on the Hot Country Singles chart; "Man to Man" in 2002, "Tough Little Boys" in 2003, "Nothing On But the Radio On" in 2004, and "Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)" in 2012.
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