Ben Folds Five - Smoke lyrics

rate me

Leaf by leaf and page by page

throw this book away

All the sadness all the rage

throw this book away

Rip out the binding and tear the

glue

all of the grief we never even

knew

we had it all along

Now it's Smoke

The things we've written in it

never really happened

All the things we've written in it

never really happened

All the people come and

gone

never really lived

All the people come have gone

no one to forgive

Smoke

CHORUS

We will not write a new one

there will not be a new one

another one another one

here's and evening dark with

shame

throw it on the fire

here's the time I took the

blame

throw it on the fire

Here's the time we didn't speak

it seemed for years and years and

here's a secret

no one will ever know the

reasons for the tears

they are smoke

CHORUS

Where do all the secrets live

they travel in the air

you can smell them when

they burn

they travel

Those who say the past is

not dead

can stop and smell the smoke

you keep saying the past is

not dead

well stop and smell the smoke

you keep on saying the past is

not even past and

you keep on saying

we are, Smoke