Plastic Cigarette
Recorded by Zach Bryan
Album: With Heaven On Top (2026)

(Capo on 5)

(Intro.)
|(C) / (Em) / |(G) / / / |(C) / (Em) / |(G) / / / |

(Verse)
(C) I ainft written a (Em)love song in so (G)long as your hair leads down your (C)spine
If you donft (Em)mind, being (G)mine for the night, or the rest of time
(C) Let your hips and (Em)lips and your fin-(G)gertips slip against the city streets
 Seeping (C)in again, I'm sleeping (Em)in while my friends get (G)high on the edge of Westside Highway

(Instrumental)
|(C) / (Em) / |(G) / / / |

(Verse)
(C) Did you ever make it (Em)back to Byron Bay?
(G) The day that you told me to quit (C)drinking
And thinking that (Em)Ifd gonna die before (G)thirty, your mom was so worried about
All us (C)kids in the house tearing (Em)picture frames down
Cause' our (G)fathers were never around when we were younger
 
(Instrumental)
|(C) / (Em) / |(G) / /
 
(Chorus)
So let it (C)go I saw you on the river's edge
(G) Dragging on a plastic cigarette
(D) With your swim top still wet (Em)
So let it (C)go, I'm meeting you out on the coast (G)
You hate the smell of real (D)smoke
Why'd you always keep it so (Em) cold?
 
(Instrumental)
|(C) / (Em) / |(G) / / / |
 
(Verse)
(C) We're collecting (Em)shells out on the (G)bayshore you know I was a shell before
(C)Deep in the hands of an-(Em)other my brother (G)told me to leave, but I didn't believe
The (C)evil beneath some (Em)people you meet out in (G)Queens
(C) The way the (Em)rain came down the other (G)day in Byron Bay
Made me (C)feel so alone, so (Em)I just went home
(G)Scribbled some poem that I know that she'll never read
 
(Instrumental)
|(C) / (Em) / |(G) / /
 
(Chorus)
So let it (C)go I saw you on the river's edge
(G) Dragging on a plastic cigarette
(D) With your swim top still wet
(Em) So let it (C)go, I'm meeting you out on the (G)coast
(G) You hate the smell of real smoke
(D) Why'd you always keep it so cold? (Em)
 
(Instrumental)
|(C) / (Em) / |(G) / / / |(C) / (Em) / |(G) / /
 
(Outro.)
So, let it (C)go I saw you on the river's edge 
(G) Dragging on a plastic cigarette (D) with your swim top still wet - - - - -