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 and
    I'm a different kind of man
    I've tried to make you love me
    You're tried to find a spark of the flame that burned and
    Somehow turned to smoke ring 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- I- I know I must be going
    'Cause loves 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
    Wind blows where it will
    Everything on earth goes somewhere
    But I swear we're standin' 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- I- I know I must be going
    'Cause loves 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: MELVERN RIVERS II RUTHERFORD, ROBERT BOYD HOUSTON
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • 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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