Siouxsie And The Banshees - Nicotine Stain Lyrics






It's just a habit
When I reach to the packet
For my last cigarette
Until the day breaks
And then my hand shakes
But it it's just driving me insane
When the smoke gets in my brain
I can't resist it

Wallow in that ash bath
Soaking up the fumes
And see the nicotine stain
Start to spread

I'm so congested
Cos north, south, east and west
Catarrh rests on my chest
Congealed and twisted
Cough up and shift it
But I can feel my lungs collapse
Sinking deep into my lap
I'm so useless

Wallow in that ash bath
Soaking up the fumes
And see the nicotine stain
Start to spread

I'm so useful
If you don't want to fight
Just give your foe a fright
Say you'll drop me
On every country
See all will be stone dead
When the nicotine stain spreads
Just light me

Wallow in that ash bath
Soaking up the fumes
And see the nicotine stain
Start to spread





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  1. A.... M....

    It's just a habit
    When I reach to the packet
    For my last cigarette
    Until the day breaks
    And then my hand shakes
    But it it's just driving me insane
    When the smoke gets in my brain
    I can't resist it

    Wallow in that ash bath
    Soaking up the fumes
    And see the nicotine stain
    Start to spread

    I'm so congested
    Cos north, south, east and west
    Catarrh rests on my chest
    Congealed and twisted
    Cough up and shift it
    But I can feel my lungs collapse
    Sinking deep into my lap
    I'm so useless

    Wallow in that ash bath
    Soaking up the fumes
    And see the nicotine stain
    Start to spread


    I'm so useful
    If you don't want to fight
    Just give your foe a fright
    Say you'll drop me
    On every country
    See all will be stone dead
    When the nicotine stain spreads
    Just light me

    Wallow in that ash bath
    Soaking up the fumes
    And see the nicotine stain
    Start to spread

  2. E.... C....

    I've just made a copy of the nicotine t shirt I made in 76, old punks never die.

  3. n.... ....

    Love this song and thanks for the video - loads of fabulous photos!

  4. T.... C....

    Great punk tune, love that early sound this band had in the early days

  5. r.... d....

    sex pistols, the clash and siouxsie and the banshees, 3 great bands for the price of a beer. unbelievable

  6. F.... ....

    got a source for all the images?

  7. o.... ....

    My goddes Siouxsie Sioux!

  8. J.... S....

    This is an old video

  9. r.... n....

    this is a song for the tobacco smokers like myself

    r.... n....

    +royal nass I hope you have quit now!!

    r.... n....

    i cut down a lot.  i dont smoke everyday like i used to.  for the past 6 months or so i have been only smoking when im in a drinking session which is usually like 3 to 5 cigarettes. i have also started to incorporate more of a holistic vegan type of diet in my life as well 

    r.... n....

    @Rich Arthur im not one of those people that smoke because i have a relentless addiction to tobacco.  i really smoke because i enjoy tobacco use especially when im drinking.  the only way i can myself quitting tobacco totally is if i quit drinking totally.  which i dont plan on doing as of now

    r.... n....

    fair enough

  10. M.... F....

    "suzie and the banshees"

    M.... F....

    That was the name written on her very first gig poster

  11. D.... G....

    Love this song. Smacks of true punk beat, rhythm, and sentiment!      I'll add my bit: Siouxie's eyes remind me of a hawks. In fact her whole face reminds me of a beautiful hawk. Indeed she may well have been one in a past life.

    D.... G....

    she's swooped down and preyed on me in my dreams many times

  12. c.... ....

    cretinfhky, she wrote the song "Israel" to make up for the whole swastika armband thing. It's very sympathetic. However, Hong Kong Garden's lyrics aren't terribly flattering but I think it's more out of cluelessness than hatred. The 70's were much less cosmopolitan and global than now. The fascination with the so-called exotic was similar to being an iconaclast, to piss off your parents.

    I met Siouxsie in 1986. She was pretty cool. I can't imagine she would hate anyone who didn't deserve it.

    c.... ....

    +clod8
    Hong Kong Garden was a commentary on how local yobbos used to behave disgracefully in her local Chinese restaurant!

    c.... ....

    +ECCENTRICERIC69 So she says, but if you listen to the actual lyrics, she is throwing silly Chinese stereotypes at them herself.

    Harmful elements in the air
    Cymbals crashing everywhere
    Reap the fields of rice and reeds
    While the population feeds
    Junk floats on polluted water
    An old custom to sell your daughter
    Would you like number 23
    Leave your yens on the counter please
    Hong Kong garden
    Tourists swarm to see your face
    Confucius has a puzzling grace
    Disoriented you enter in
    Unleashing scent of wild jasmine
    Slanted eyes meet a new sunrise
    A race of bodies small in size
    Chicken Chow Mein and Chop Suey
    Hong Kong garden takeaway
    Hong Kong garden

    No mention of evil skinheads at all. I don't deny she seems to like the place tho.

    c.... ....

    +clod8
    It depends how you interpret things …….. do you think she was throwing silly middle eastern stereotypes in "Arabian Knights"?

    c.... ....

    @ECCENTRICERIC69 Again, no. She spoke the truth about Islam decades before others in the music industry. Everything she said about it is true.

    c.... ....

    "A race of bodies, small in size" isn't condescending, it's the truth. All she's doing is describing a people and culture. But, nowadays, the truth is mistaken for insults and hatred.

  13. T.... ....

    Muito boa.

  14. B.... S....

    True that....she was a gorgeous gothic gal.....she looked sort of like Sarah Douglas from Superman II.....or vice-versa?

    B.... S....

    +Stephen Bloch she was a punk, not a fucking goth,

    B.... S....

    But she was a role model for many goths.

  15. F.... B....

    35 years on, I love the music today as day one!!

  16. E.... T....

    Siouxsie forever  .. this song and this sound are immortal :) 

  17. M.... ....

    Siouxsie should have been a model because she is just so striking, just the way she looks at the camera, and the way she does her make up and how she looks just makes her stand out from the crowd!

    M.... ....

    A model, as opposed to a songwriter, recording artist & feminist icon...hmm, I don't think that's what she was aiming for...

    M.... ....

    Well she shouldn't have been so beautiful I don't think she'd have got very far if she looked like the back of a bus!

    M.... ....

    @MorticiasTwin07
    thats not true. i never knew what she looked like lol

  18. w.... b....

    This is Siouxsies best, live is amazing

  19. V.... ....

    cretinfhky, British punks wore swastikas to upset what they called the old order.Sid Vicious used to wear a swastika t shirt, it was just to piss off people. Later Siouxsie regretted wearing the armband from what I heard.

    V.... ....

    +VenomStu we used to where them because they were anticonformist, nazis were actually loathed by anyone besides skinheads and nazi punks, the latter being mainly an American invention. In the UK and here in Australia, punks were anarchist not Nazis

    V.... ....

    +Kaotik Jezta I understand that totally. Swastikas were originally a Tibetan good luck symbol and were also used by other cultures LONG before the Nazi shit occurred.

    V.... ....

    +VenomStu From an artist point of view, nazi/communist art and architecture is aesthetically fascinating.

    V.... ....

    Nazi punks weren't an American invention, the National Front had an organization called Punk Front that put on Nazi punk shows in the late 70s. Nazi punks didn't really pop up in the US until around 1982. They'd been in the UK and Australia four or five years longer. The Quick and the Dead in Perth definitely predated any American Nazi punk or skinhead band.

    V.... ....

    Yeah she got beat up in France for wearing one.

  20. R.... L....

    Here keen awareness of the nastiness of cigarettes didn't stop her from smoking did it?

  21. K.... M....

    Sharing is caring!!!! =)

  22. s.... r....

    Timeless

  23. g.... ....

    her best years for me....thanx!

  24. N.... t....

    CONGESTED !!

  25. T.... ....

    Yay,that takes me back,love in a void was another classic early banshees song.

  26. g.... ....

    i really love this song ♥

  27. S.... ....

    Satanister. :D

  28. A.... R....

    i wasen't even born when she was a hit !!

    To bad, sooooo sad

  29. N.... t....

    woohoo.

  30. h.... a....

    very good

  31. L.... G....

    Always excellent.

  32. t.... ....

    Brilliant slideshow to a Great song! Well done :)

  33. s.... ....

    yo!!!are you still there? Or is Turkey still in censorship mode??? Damn greeks!!

  34. S.... O....

    Hey we all have bad habits? i am a bitch to nicotine still and i only smoke 5 smokes a day a the most!

  35. p.... ....

    I love those guitar riffs... so simple and so original. Nobody plays like that.

  36. B.... B....

    Yes we had no grasp of history and felt that we were just making it all up-- we felt that the world was vacuous and without meaning and yet everybody was pretending to be so holy so we just did a bunch of crazy stuff to shake it up and wake people up ... all the people I know from that time are harcore vegan human / animal rights political now -- youth is wasted on the young I suppose : )

  37. l.... ....

    thanks for clearin that up :)

  38. S.... ....

    Siouxsie is in fact NOT Jewish. But, yeah, it was purely for shock tactics, not for any anti-semitic or racist ideolgies.

  39. D.... D....

    i love the guitars i knnow Siouxsie hates JOHN MCKAY AND KENNY MORRIS But they were bad to the bone Especially John Mckay he just had a style of playing and look that just said FUCK U Sorry they ditched the band But this song is badass I LOVE THE GUITAR NAH NAH NAH NUH NICOTINE SPREADS

  40. M.... ....

    Siouxsie is in fact jewish,the whole thing was too,surprise,shock,part of the 70`s punk.

  41. B.... B....

    every punk wore swasitkas -- it was STUPID. I was 14 and I did the same thing. We didn't even get it. Half my band was jewish and black and we all aore them.

  42. 3.... ....

    Robert smith Played w/her!

  43. A.... P....

    Whose on guitar here?
    Brilliant!
    Is it McGeoch? Sounds like...

  44. G.... ....

    Early Siouxsie were very good. I love all songs from "The Scream". Nice photos. Thanx:)

  45. P.... H....

    steady orchid!!! you're right though..i was born 15 years too late and in the wrong place-never mind.. love this track though, although red light i think is my fav..wasnt really aware of the music until recently..awakened lots of childhood memories..hmmm..she is beautiful, talented and vegetarian..what i'd give-stop now..

  46. P.... H....

    This is still one of my favorite cds. Scream, Siouxsie's first, the energy and you showed some really great pics of the God Mother of Punk! I too met her on her Juju tour. I still remember it was halloween,and she sang the song Halloween, the crowd went wild. She was so beautiful and friendly.

  47. S.... ....

    very unique thanks for sharing this!

  48. B.... E....

    Siouxsie es genial. Esta es una de mis canciones favoritas.

  49. R.... M....

    I must have been the only person in RI with a Siouxsie T-shirt back in the 80's but i loved her and still do......

  50. d.... e....

    Wonderful song. so much raw, vibrant energy. I enjoy hearing this, just as much as I did......oh 30 years ago! Beautiful girl too, never did get to meet her, sadly.

  51. S.... ....

    Can you tell me where to find even some of these pics or maybe even send me a bunch of them??? smooch smooch kiss kiss Please!

  52. s.... ....

    lov this songt siouxsie rules

  53. s.... ....

    What do you listen to?

  54. s.... ....

    This is fucking so awesome!

  55. L.... ....

    Great job, Aschenputtel!!

  56. s.... ....

    This is awesome!! You are the best at producing these slide shows.