Ben Folds Five Smoke lyrics

Leaf by leaf and page by page
Thrown this book away
All the sadness, all the rage
Throw this book away

Rip out the binding and tear the glue
Now 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
Never really happened

Now all the people come and gone
Never really lived
And all the people come have gone
No one to forgive smoke

We will not write a new one
There will not be a new one
Another one, another one

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

Here is 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, smoke, smoke

We will not write a new one
There will not be a new one
Another one, another one

Where do all the secrets live they travel in the air
You can smell them when they burn and travel
Those who say the past is not dead
Can stop and smell the smoke

You keep sayin' the past is not dead
Stop and smell the smoke
You keep on sayin' the past is not even past
And you keep sayin' we are smoke, smoke, smoke