Last Night’s Lipstick

 I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to write around the line “Last Night’s Lipstick”. You may have noticed from my videos that I love a good lip color that pops…and one that can last all night. That’s the trick there. I’m not a dainty, delicate flower, don’t want to mess up my makeup kind of gal. I go out, eat, drink and have a good time. Sometimes my lipstick makes it through the night and I feel like a bit of a rockstar the next day.

Well I’ve used the phrase “last night’s lipstick” a few times before this, but I never loved where it landed. It felt forced. So I jotted it down on my hook page in my notebook and thought “maybe someday I’ll revisit it”. That was during the songwriting challenge so I was grasping by mid month, but I never wrote on it during the challenge. 

Then, one random night, it hit me to write it from a male perspective and something clicked. I was on the patio, drinking bourbon, listening to my favorite artist (I’ve said it was when the new album came out…but it may have been the day after a concert? I can’t remember. Like I said, bourbon was involved and this was months ago. I’ve slept since then. Don’t judge.) I do vaguely remember hollering to my hubby “I got it! I’m going to write a Gary song!” Oh, my poor hubby and the antics he had to deal with that night. 

The chorus came together just like that, and I wrote some verses…drunk me liked them but sober me was like “ehhhhh, I don’t know”. But I really liked the chorus so I told myself that someday I’d finish it. Well I’ve been on a writing kick lately so I revisited it a few weeks ago and the verses started to flow. Then I picked up a guitar and the music came together. Yes, I know it’s three chords but by golly it’s fun to play…I mean “I used a simple chord structure to give potential artists the freedom to adapt it to their unique style”. Yeah. I did it on purpose. We’ll go with that. 

Last Night’s Lipstick

Chelsey Layton

Male Country Rock - Use Your Imagination. I need to buy tires before I can save up for a demo 🤣

V1:

Head already poundin’, ain’t no early to rise

Kinda Sunday morning til I open my eyes

Lookie to my left, bam I’m wide awake

You let out a little giggle as I double take

CH:

Rockin’ last nights lipstick, hair all a mess

Hint of cigar smoke, bourbon on your breath

Got me weak in the knees, nothing I wouldn’t give 

For another double shot of last night’s lipstick

Rockin’ last night’s lipstick, my rush tshirt 

Smokey blue eyes, tattoo, the works 

I’m a fool, I’m a junky, needing one more hit

Come on now babe, give me a taste of last night’s lipstick

V2:

You know you made it hard to concentrate 

Swinging and a swaying up by the stage

Swore the after party was the cherry on top

But now you’ve made that memory an afterthought 

CH

BR:

The way you’re tangled in my sheets, oh good lord

Got me ravin’ got me cravin’ for more, more, more

CH x2