I Save Cigarette Butts by Daniel Johnston (1980)

A routine Daniel Johnson lofi jam about obsessing over a girl, collecting her disgarded cigarette butts, walking in on her ‘wrestling’ with someone else, and continuing to save her cigarette butts. Typical stuff. The track closes with one of the most beautiful, twinkly and haunting piano ditties recorded to cassette. What a reminder of what this man (and all of us by extension) are capable of.


Outro begins at 4:15

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