Acquaintances

I love the smell of cigarettes As long as I can’t taste them on my breath I love the sound of old Corvettes As long as I ain’t driving And I love the way we met But I could do without the rest Baby, I liked you best When we were just acquaintances I could tell that you were bad for me The first night standing on the balcony Drinking rum and cokes, you hated all my jokes But I just couldn’t look away from you And then you said that I should wait for you Before I went back home, if only I had known I love the smell of cigarettes As long as I can’t taste them on my breath I love the sound of old Corvettes As long as I ain’t driving And I love the way we met But I could do without the rest Baby, I liked you best When we were just acquaintances It started hitting me in little ways You’d show up late and you would never pay You thought my friends were bores, so we always hung with yours But then it hit me like a ton of bricks These were problems I could never fix I gave it a good try, but now I’ll say goodbye I love the smell of cigarettes As long as I can’t taste them on my breath I love the sound of old Corvettes As long as I ain’t driving And I never would have guessed That this would end in such a mess Baby, I liked you best Baby, I liked you best When we were just acquaintances