FIVE MINUTE LOVE AFFAIR

I live in darkness, never knowing day from night.
I was never needed, no one ever held me tight.
Then one day it happened, she chose me from all the rest.
I stood very straight and tall, she knew I was the best.

Her nearness made me tingle, and I started living fast.
I knew there had been others, but I hoped that this would last.
Her lips were soft and sweet, with a certain tenderness.
She made me feel wanted, with her warm and soft caress.

The way she sets me afire.
My fevers getting higher.
The way she sets me afire.
I know I'll never be the same again.

After she had taken me for all that she could get.
She made me very sorry, that we had ever met.
I know that she just used me for pleasures all her own.
She left me crushed and broken and smoldering all alone.

Now you know my story, how I was treated wrong.
Especially when my life was only five minutes long.
You know it shouldn't happen, but you have no regrets.
You think I have no feelings, 'cause I'm just a cigarette.