Cigarettes & Housework Lyrics - Singles - Rachel Fuller

My teenage years were full of fear 

I spent most of them inside 

Sitting on the telephone 

Being bitchy and unkind 

Wandering from room to room 

Trying to leave my self behind 

Walking with my eyes closed 

Pretending to be blind 

Naked in the kitchen 

I was smoking in the hall 

Vacuuming the sofa 

Trying to make sense of it all 

Sweeping under carpet 

All my pain with all the dirt 

And the only thing that kept me sane 

Cigarettes and housework 

Cigarettes and housework 

Drowning all my sorrows 

In an effort to be free 

Playing my piano 

Writing the requiem for me 

Thinking I could clean up 

All the trouble from yesterday 

Or hoping that my cigarette smoke 

Would carry it away 

Naked in the kitchen 

I was smoking in the hall 

Vacuuming the sofa 

Trying to make sense of it all 

Sweeping under carpet 

All my pain with all the dirt 

And the only thing that kept me sane 

Cigarettes and housework 

Cigarettes and housework 

I had come through the trauma of youth 

But once in a while I still find myself 

Naked in the kitchen 

Smoking in the hall 

Vacuming the sofa 

Trying to make sense of it all 

Sweeping under carpet 

All my pain with all the dirt 

And the only thing that keeps me sane 

Cigarettes and housework 

Cigarettes and housework