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Go ahead touch me like that
The way you pull my head back
Go ahead, breathe me in
Bite me till I bleed
This love is like barbed wire running through my veins
Nicotine Love
Go ahead hurt me like that
I've been hurt before
I won't be fixed again
I'm not afraid to sweat
Cause I like the pain and it's familiar to me
And more gentle than most men will ever be
Nicotine Love
But don't get me wrong
I don't want a friend
Just need you here to help me satisfy this childish sin
This insatiable desire
Hunger so deep
You will melt on my tongue
And I will put you to sleep
And I'll press you like petals
Till you're fragile and thin
Then I'll breathe you in
Nicotine Love
It hurts just right
Not to know your name
But feel that body beneath me
Struggling as if in some strange way it were the same
As when I was with him
Gonna make you promise
That you'll peek
Then I will crush your little heart
Cause I can
Because it happened to me
Nicotine Love
So come here, baby
My honey, cutie-pie
Let my fingers swim like pale fish through your hair
So I can tell you that I love you
You'll say, "Never let me go"
You wonder why it is I'm here
But patience and soon it will be all too clear
Nicotine Love
But don't get me wrong
I don't want a friend
Just need you here to help me satisfy this childish sin
This insatiable desire
Hunger so deep
You will melt on my tongue
And I will put you to sleep
And I'll press you like petals
Till you're fragile and thin
Then I'll breathe you in
Nicotine Love
So go ahead touch me like that
The end is drawing near
Go ahead hurt me that way
You don't even know enough to fear
You don't know how true it is when you say
My kisses are sweet as death
But soon you'll have no more options
That's all you'll have left
Cause this love is like barbed wire
I'm electric and so alone
So come here, stray cat
I'm gonna take you home
And then I will press you like petals
Till you're fragile and thin
Then I'll breathe you in
Then I'll breathe you in
Nicotine Love
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“I wrote this a really long time ago, predating my first album by a couple of years. Way before I was homeless. I was probably 18 and had just graduated high school. It’s an extremely dark song about a woman who had been sexually abused as a child. She turns to prostitution and ends up getting off on killing men and controlling them. I look back at a lot of the songs I wrote at that time and none of them are love songs. They’re very complex and grown-up. Thanks to Jonathan Yudkin's wonderfully adventurous string arrangements, this is now exponentially darker than any solo acoustic performance of it. I still find it remarkable that I wrote this song at such a young age.” — Picking Up the Pieces Press Release
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