Zach Bryan – Plastic Cigarette (Guitar)

Capo 5
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***Please note the lyrics are slightly different because this is the LIVE version from June 20th 2025, NOT the officially released version in the album,*** [Intro] C Em G C Em G C Em G [Verse]
 C                  Em             G              
 I ain’t written a love song in so long as your hair leads down your spine

C             Em                     G         
 If you don’t mind, being mine for the night, or the rest of time,

C                    Em               G
 Let your hips and lips and your fingertips slip against the city streets

 C                           Em                      G
 Seeping in again, I'm sleeping in while my friends get high on the edge of Westside Highway
C Em G [Verse]
C                     Em              G
 Did you ever make it back to Byron Bay?

                                      C
 The day that you told me to quit drinking

                    Em                      G
 And thinking that I's gonna die before thirty, your mom was so worried about

        C                        Em
 All us kids in the house tearing picture frames down

           G
 Cause' our fathers were never around when we were younger
C Em G [Chorus]
N.C.       C
 So let it go I saw you on the river's edge

G
 Dragging on a plastic cigarette

D*                          Em
 With your swim top still wet

           C                                   G
 So let it go, I'm meeting you out on the coast

                              D
 You hate the smell of real smoke

                            Em
 Why'd you always keep it so cold?
C G D Em [Verse]
C                  Em                G
 We're collecting shells out on the bayshore you know I was a shell before

 C                     Em                 G
 Deep in the hands of another my brother told me to leave, but I didn't believe

 C                    Em                      G
 the evil beneath some people you meet out in Queens

C              Em                G
 The way the rain came down the other day in Byron Bay

          C               Em                  G
 Made me feel so alone, so I just went home, scribbled some poem that I know that she'll never read
C Em G [Chorus]
N.C.       C
 So let it go I saw you on the river's edge

G
 Dragging on a plastic cigarette

D*                          Em
 With your swim top still wet

           C                                   G
 So let it go, I'm meeting you out on the coast

                              D
 You hate the smell of real smoke

                            Em
 Why'd you always keep it so cold?
C G D Em C G D Em [Outro]
        C                              G D* Em
 Let it go I saw you on the river's edge

        C
 Let it go I saw you on the river's edge

G
 Dragging on a plastic cigarette

D*
 With your swim top still wet
______________ * = strum once