The Wonder Years - Cigarettes & Saints (2015)

  • The Wonder Years - Cigarettes & Saints

    Clip Info

    • Artist: The Wonder Years
    • Song: Cigarettes & Saints
    • Length: 04:57
    • View count: 2,118,567
    • Added: 2015-07-31

    User Comments

    • My gf played this when we were hanging out in my room. I didn’t pay attention to it. I then found it in a story. I’m at a loss for words

    • 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

    • 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.