Smoke

INTRO VERSO 1 Leaf by leaf and page by page Throw this book away All the sadness all the rage Throw this book away VERSO 2 Rip out the binding and tear the glue All the grief we never even knew We had it all along Now it's ... smoke VERSO 3 All the things we've written in it Never really happened All the things we've written in it Never really happened VERSO 4 All of the people come and gone Never really lived / And all the people come have gone. No one to forgive... Smoke BRIDGE We will not write a new one There will not be a new one, ano - ther one, ano - ther one VERSO 5 Here's an evening dark with shame Throw it on the fire Here's the time I took the blame Throw it on the fire VERSO 6 Here is the time we didn't speak It seemed, for years and years and here's the secret No one will ever know The reasons for the tears They are smoke, smoke, smoke BRIDGE We will not write a new one There will not be a new one, ano - ther one, ano - ther one VERSO 7 Where do all the secrets live They travel in the air You can smell them when they burn They travel VERSO 8 Those who say the past is not dead 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 saying We are smoke Smoke Smoke