Smoke Lyrics - Whatever & Ever Amen - Ben Folds

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 

And 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 

And all of the people come and gone 

Never really lived 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 and 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 that 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 

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 saying 

We are, smoke, smoke, smoke