Smoke - Demo - 1994

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
 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
 that 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
 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