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Smoke
Ben Folds Five

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


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