Zach Bryan – Plastic Cigarette (Guitar Acoustic)

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PLASTIC CIGARETTE (ACOUSTIC) As recorded by Zach Bryan (From the 2026 Album WITH HEAVEN ON TOP - ACOUSTIC)
[Intro]
  Q=78
   C          Em              G                        C         Em
e|-0--0-0---------3-3-------|----------------------0-|-0-3-3-3-------3-3-3--------|
B|-1--1-1p0-------0-0-0-0-0-|--------------------0-0-|-1-1-1-1p0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0--|
G|-0--0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|----0-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-0-0-|-0-0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0-0--|
D|-2--2-2---0-2-2---2-2-0-0-|----0-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-0-0-|-2-2-2-2---2-2-2---2-2-0-0--|
A|-3--3-3---0-2-2---2-------|-2--2-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----|-3-----------2--------------|
E|------------0-0-----------|-3--3-------------------|-------------0--------------|

   G
e|------------------0-0----|
B|------0-0-0-0---0-0-0----|
G|----0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----|
D|----0-0-0-0-0-0-0--------|
A|-2--2---------2----------|
E|-3--3---------3----------|
p = pull-off x = muted [Intro] C Em G C Em G [Verse 1]
C                      Em              G                                 C
Well I ain’t written a love song in so long as your hair leads down your spine

            Em                   G
But I don't mind a few lines tonight, I'll regret it for the rest of time

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

        C                  Em                      G                                   
Seepin' in again, sleepin' in while my friends get high 

                                    C Em G    
On the edge of the West Side Highway
[Verse 2]
C                    Em             G
Did you ever make it back to Byron Bay?

                                 C
The day that you told me to quit drinkin'

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

          C                         Em
All those kids in the house tearin' picture frames down

    G                                             C Em G
Our fathers were never around when we were younger
[Chorus]
          C                           G
So let me go I saw you on the river's edge

G
Draggin' on a plastic cigarette

                         Em
With your swim top still wet

          C                          G
So let it go, meetin' you out on the coast

                           D
You hate the smell of real smoke

                               Em    C Em G
So why'd you always keep it so close?
[Verse 3]
C                   Em                G
You were collecting shells out on the bayshore you know I was a shell before

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

     C                    Em                     G
That evil would mean some people you meet out in Queens
[Verse 4]
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, and scribbled some poem 

                             C Em G
That I know you'll never read
[Chorus]
          C                           G
So let me go I saw you on the river's edge

G
Draggin' on a plastic cigarettes

                           Em
With your swim top still wet

          C                          G
So let it go, meetin' you out on the coast

                           D
You hate the smell of real smoke

                               Em
So why'd you always keep me so close?
[Interlude] C Em G C Em G [Outro]
          C                            G
So let me go, I saw you on the river's edge

                              D
Draggin' on a plastic cigarette
N.C. With your swim top still wet