Hannah Rose Platt - Chanel & Cigarettes

A rainy night

A crowded bar

A worn out man

With a broken down car

At least that's what he told his wife back home

He slips off his wedding ring behind his back

For the second time this week

Who knows what the night will bring



There she stood

Across the bar

Like a 1930s movie star

A cloud of smoke softening her face

A perfect velvet hourglass

Full red lips and oozing class

And moving

With a slow seductive sway



CH

Hypnotized by his desire to persist

The kind of woman any man would not resist

Drunk on a cocktail of cheap thrills and regrets

And the sweet scent of Chanel & cigarettes



2

He's not too sure what came next

Now he's out back helping her out of her dress

She whispers

“I know somewhere we can go”

Led him down a winding path

All the way down to the railroad track

He could feel

The cool

Steel

Beneath his shoes



She grabbed and, kissed him hungrily

Said “Would you run away with me?

Cause I've been hurt too many times before

My last love left me waiting here

Today will be too many years

Since the pain

Became

Too much to endure”





CH.

He leapt away as a train came screaming by

Watched her wither and age before his eyes

Not a trace of youth or beauty left

Just the faint scent of Chanel & cigarettes



Middle:

He thinks

Is this just my imagination

The guilt of my mistakes

Playing tricks on me

Am I just haunted by the shame

Of my infidelities



CH

He watched her wisp away and disappear

Then ran away wet with rain and frightened tears

Thinks ‘This was far too real for me to manifest

And I still can smell Chanel & cigarettes ‘



Another night

Another bar

Another man

Getting out his car

Looking for fun outside the marriage bed

He's hit as he walks through the door

An aroma he's not sensed before

A sweet perfume

Mixed with something else...