Wonder Years, The - Cigarettes & Saints Lyrics
Twice a week I pass by the church that held your funeral
and the pastor’s words come pouring down like rain.
How he called you a sinner but said now you walk with Jesus,
so the drugs that took your life aren’t gonna cause you any pain.
I refused to kneel or pray. I won’t remember you that way
but I lit you a candle in every cathedral across Europe.
I hope you know you’re still my patron saint.
I tried to forgive but I can’t forget the cigar in his fist.
I know that they were heartsick but I need someone to blame
and I know how they blame me. I know what you’d say.
You’d tell me it was your fault. I should put all my arrows away.
I’m sure there ain’t a heaven,
I bet you’re bumming cigarettes off saints.
I’m sure you’re still singing
but I’ll bet that you’re still just a bit out of key.
With that crooked smile pushing words across your teeth.
You were heat lightning.
You were a storm that never rolled in.
You were the northern lights in a southern town, a caustic fleeting thing.
I’ll bury your memories in the garden;
I’ll watch them grow with the flowers in the spring.
I’ll keep you with me.
These wolves in their suits and ties
saying “kid you can trust me.”
Charming southern drawl, sunken eyes.
Buying good will in hotel lobbies.
They got fistfuls of pills to make sure you don’t hurt no more.
You don’t gotta feel anything.
Got their fangs in our veins.
Got their voice in our heads.
Got our arms in their grips.
No, we can’t shake free.
This god damn machine; hungry and heartless.
My whole generation got lost in the margin.
We put our faith in you. You turned a profit.
Now we’re drowning here under your waves.
Drowning held under your waves.
Drowning here. Drowning here.
You can’t have my friends. You can’t have my brothers.
You can’t have my friends. You can’t have my brothers.
You can’t have my friends. You can’t have my brothers.
You can’t have me. No, you can’t have me.
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Wonder Years, The Cigarettes & Saints Comments
There's not enough like buttons.
somehow this reminds me a lot of some frank turner songs O:
NO YOU CAN’T HAVE ME!
This is similar to when brand new came out with Jesus Christ, or when the hotelier put out among the wildflowers. Monumental moments within the punk world. This song still holds a dear spot in my playlist.
A truly remarkable band
I wish I could hear this song for the first time all over again.
i dont believe in god but i love your music
this song is about not believing in god anyway
@fernandez thanks i listened to it over again and made much more sense
Yeah, you’re good, he’s talking about how redundant and corrupt religion can be when someone deals with loss. Right down anyone’s alley.
Probably the best song ever.
Just saying.
The lead singer looks like Australian comedian Matt Smith
Smoking a cigarette and listening to this hits harder.
You can’t help my friends. You can’t help my brothers. You can’t help me.
So much truth in one beautiful relatable package. Never gets old.
Es incómodo poner canciones tristes en el carro 😥 . .
was that a Kurt Cobain fender Jaguar Soupy was using
My husband died of an overdose in 2017. He was 12 years sober & only 35 years old. Our generation is by far the most affected by the opioid crisis. Drugs have been around forever, imagine what our parents did in the 60s and 70s. Nothing has ever killed as many people as opiods/heroin/fentanyl. Pain clinics and pill mills took over in the 90s, prime time for our generation to become the biggest target. Addiction is a mental health disease and needs to be treated as such, or our future is doomed.
Having of just lost a friend to addiction not too long ago, I understand this song a lot more than I did beforehand. The ending hits me especially hard, when he starts talking about the pharmaceutical industry and how they’re trying to get people addicted to make money, because now I know that’s not actually what he’s talking about. When something terrible happens to someone you love, it’s so much easier to have something or someone to blame because it gives you a sense of closure. One of the worst realizations I’ve ever made was that my friend’s death was nobody’s fault, and I couldn’t have saved her anymore than she could save herself (and, mind you, she was trying). It’s so much harder when there’s no “what if” scenario where the person you love never left, which unfortunately is most of the time. And the anti-religious sentiments are also very real for me; I’m sick of listening to people talk about her sins, as if she wasn’t an amazing, smart, funny, beautiful person in addition to being an addict. Bottom line, this song couldn’t be more representative of how I’m thinking and feeling about the situation and I couldn’t be more thankful for that.
Sorry for your loss bud.
I dedicate this song to my awesome, handsome, and strong son Jason Atom Ryan 1980-2017 And my sweet, beautiful, and loving daughter Raven Jessica Kunze 1985-2015. I love and miss them so much, my heart' breaks that they were taken to soon. They were great people, unfortunately they had the terrible disease of addiction. Good people make bad decisions sometimes, and bad people sell 'HERION" without caring how it kills, and leaves families hurt, and broken. This drug is the DEVIL! 😈 Please if you or anyone you know is addicted PLEASE GET HELP! You deserve to be happy and alive!!!! May my children RIP... From A Mother left broken, sad and lonely...God Bless! Rosie Santos
Is it the same singer that sings "When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong" ? Don't hate, that was the only song I've heard from them
2019. Still here
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This song is a fucking masterpiece
i listened to this song a lot without knowing the lyrics. i looked them up and immediately started bawling my eyes out
liked because of the Kurt Cobain Fender Jaguar
Tandy learned how to sing finally.
Just saw them at Troxy in London, opening for the amazing Mayday Parade!! ❤️ Hooked on this gem at the moment. Am I the only one?
Goosebumps EVERY single time. Perhaps my favorite song of all time
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LOVE YOU!
@D4812 Daho Thank you!
Seen these guys live 5 years ago and I'm going to see them again on Saturday, and last time I was their soupy put the mic to me for the bastards the vultures and the wolves never have I ever felt more satisfied in my life. I hope he recognises me from last time and does it again, and the mayday parade are going to be there too, so thats just a lovely cherry on top
This song hits so fucking hard, I lost both my parents to drugs and my brothers and I were moved around a lot with docs. We always had to talk to "wolves with suits and ties" this song is my safe haven thanks soupy and everyone else in the band
Still gets me this
Nicely done
The way Soupy really emotes when he "sings" gets me every time I listen to this song
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Rest in power Dad. I miss you more and more every single day. These are the first holidays without my best friend and It's so fucking hard.
When she throws the bag of rocks off the cliff it was the most powerful thing I've seen in a long time
"I lit candles for you in every cathedral across Europe, I hope you know you're still my patron saint."
I lost my best friend on Saturday and this song is helping me grieve. once again, thank you twy.
The part that goes” I’ll bury your memories in the garden and watch them grow will the flowers in spring I keep you with me “ I start crying my eyes out cause it hits so hard to the heart
depression is not a joke thanks to all pop punk band 😊💚💙💛💜💝💞
depression is not a joke thanks to all pop punk band 😊💚💙💛💜💝💞
This song means so much to me... I lost my best friend to drugs. This song speaks to me every day
She was baptized
thank you americ anfootball, we're now can enjoy the new wonder years like nobody could imagine before
Wouldn't it be cool if we were astronauts?
Soupy is definitely the Allen Ginsberg of this generation. This is his "Howl." After losing my best friend last year, I really appreciate every word of this song.
If I could hit like twice on this song and video I totally would...
The most powerful song I’ve ever heard....
If any band's pop punk royalty, the Wonder Years is.
Literal chills from this video.
I wish this song was longer. R.i p. Diana marie .
Saw them tonight and their music video doesnt do their philly live show justice
Saw them live and the light show made it feel like iwas watching a band that was selling out arenas. The light show took away from the show. It’s like hearing a over produced track with your eyes! Amazing band though
500,000 of these views are from me.
Met the lead singers dad he came into my Autozone and I sold him a part!! He’s like you know the wonder years I was like yeah dude I love them he says the singer is my son I was like bro what!
deez nuts
THANK YOU ...that’s all
There still aren't enough drummers
Lil peep 💔
This song came out a couple months before my grandfather committed suicide. I thought it was a good song but I didn't have the connection to it that I do now. The first time I heard it after he died, I couldn't stop fucking crying. Every lyric in this song hits home, from him singing out of key, to the northern lights in a southern town (he was a new yorker who moved to dallas), to the hungry and heartless machine. I just want to thank the band for writing a song that actually means something. It's oddly comforting to be able to just sit in my emotions and cry it out for 5 minutes while listening lol. Anyway, thanks for reading.
Spoiler alert: ethnically ambiguous "everygirl" throws off the yolk of the patriarchy because she was inspired by five dudes in Urban Outfitters sweaters with beards.
what a tune, just discovered these guys and oh my gosh :O
goosebumps every time. Such an incredible song
I already thought this song was beautiful when it first came out, but listening to it now that I've lost a friend, this song hits my heart like a fuckin train 💔 I miss her so much and soupys lyrics really capture exactly how it feels. I can't listen to this without crying, it's so powerful
I Fucking love this band
The part "ill bury your memories in the garden and watch them grow with flowers in spring ill keep you with me"makes me so emotional what heart felt lyrics
I lost by best friend almost 2 years ago to a hit & run. This song always gets me mayn.
that looks like Devil's Pool at the end
it's Jacob's Well in Texas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Well_(Texas)
Such big emotion in his voice. Love it! It's so amazing. The rough tone in it, as well as the suffering in his voice. Pure Gold!
Good lord, how fantastic is that. I got sick of all those typical pop punk bands with time passing by. But this is amazing golden sound, wonderful engineering, and great lyrics. I appreciate the music a lot. Would definitely come to see this spectacle live. Greetings from germany.
Love the calm parts a lot. It's like modern coldplay, back in the day. But in a better, more defined calmer version somehow. Dig it!
I like this song
swimming into the west
Two years later and still one of the most powerful music videos I've ever seen.
god damn, I just stumbled on this band from moose blood but this band is amazing omg
This song is everything 😪
Song always reminds me of my old roommate and friend that rolled his truck on Xanax. As sad as it is, I never shy away from this song. He was a good guy. No one believes me when I say some dubstep was played at his funeral bc it was his jam.
Can someone bust out a lyric video for this, They’re so beautiful.
Its 2018 and I still get fired up on this record like it came out yesterday.
Just discovered them and when I finished this video ... wow. I have no words ...
all I listen to is pop punk. ive heard a lot about this band. never bothered listening to them. accidentally clicked on this vid. im speechless
Happy accident lol
If thats all you listen to you need to branch out. You're missing out on so much.
@johnnyadrianjr same
welcome to arguably (although tiny moving parts are up there) the best band in the scene :)
eric welch I love TMP but their lyrics are super corny. There are many better bands in ‘the scene’.
Such a horrible way to go...
that guitar swing/headbang at 4:11 though
Good song! Pills don't help. The best way to live, is to learn to live with YOURSELF! The best therapy is nature, painting, music, and love from family and friends. It gets better, believe me.
Man, Ted from accounting has had it locked up huh?
This makes me miss people I've lost (touch with) as well as those I've never met .-.
How do you go form Get Stoked on It! and Won't Be Pathetic Forever to this :((((
this is the first time ive heard this band, genuinely took my breath away
i made a video showing some of my record collection yesterday, including all of my twy ones! check it out on my channel please!
I realized one of my friends could be singing this song about me and turned my life around. Ha, just kidding. Drugs aren't that easy to kick.
Fuck heroin.
TWO DRUMMERS. TWO DRUMMERS TO SYMBOLIZE THE LOSS OF MIKE PELONE (a drummer himself about whom this song was written). BEAUTIFUL.
"you can't have me. fuck no you can't have me"
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My song to lil peep 😂😂😔
We're no saviors if we can't save our brothers. This is being sung in the backround near the end.
I got chills when she threw that backpack in the river...
They need to blast this in the White House
shut up Butthead!