Gedalya Folk Rock Rabbi performs a song about a person who died from smoking, rationalizing each cigarette as harmless. The refrain drives home the lie: no one ever died from just one cigarette. He's playing live September 8 at the Shrine.
You know, sometimes there's a truth and there's the real truth. Anyway, this is a song about the real truth. Someone I know that passed away from smoking too many cigarettes, and he always said every time he wanted one, he just said, "Just one cigarette." It's called "Just One Cigarette." Smokes 3 packs a day.
Every night he suffers pain. He vows to quit, but the very next day he does the same old thing again. It's just one cigarette. I'll smoke it without any regret. There's never been a man I ever met who died from just Just one cigarette. Well, how does he keep on fooling himself with the same old lies? What goes on in his silly little mind that makes it easy to justify that it's just one cigarette? Well, I'll smoke it without any regret. There's never been a man I ever met who died from just one cigarette. Well, it's a problem of pride to tell the truth, to just step aside, give my will some room to breathe, 'cause I'm free to do whatever I please. Well, I was sold long ago By a man I didn't even know. He got me hooked, he caught me in his net. Looking so cool smoking that cigarette. You know what I'm talking about, man. It's just one cigarette. I'll smoke it without any regret. There's never been a man I ever met who died from just one cigarette. Cigarette, just one cigarette, I'll smoke it without any regret, cuz there's never been a man I ever met who died from smoking just one cigarette.
All right, it's Gedalya Folk Rock Rabbi Rabbi Rabbi Gedalya Folk Rock Rabbi. I'll be live September 8th at Shrine at 7 o'clock if you want to come. Only good things.
