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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Ben Folds Five
Performer
David Davidson
Violin
Ben Folds
Performer
Chris Teale
Violin
Kristin Wilkinson
Viola
John Catchings
Cello
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Ben Folds
Composer
Anna Goodman
Lyrics
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Ben Folds
Producer
Alex Gibson
Recording Engineer
Caleb Southern
Producer
Andy Wallace
Mixing Engineer
Howie Weinberg
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Leaf by leaf
And page by page
Throw this book away
All the sadness, all the rage
Throw this book away
[Verse 2]
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
[Verse 3]
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
[Verse 4]
We will not write a new one
There will not be a new one
Another one, another one
Here's an evenin' 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 seems for years and years and
Here's a secret
No one will ever know
The reasons for the tears
They are smoke
Smoke
Smoke
[Verse 5]
We will not write a new one
There will not be a new one
Another one, another one
Were do all the secrets live?
They travel in the air
You can smell them when they burn
They travel
Those that say the past's not dead
Can stop and smell the smoke
[Verse 6]
You keep saying' the past is not dead
Well, stop and smell the smoke (You keep sayin')
You keep on sayin' the past is not even past (You keep sayin')
And you keep sayin' (You keep sayin')
We are
Smoke
Smoke
Smoke
Written by: Anna Goodman, Ben Folds