INTRO
F7   F9   G Em7 Fm7
F7   F9   G Em7 Fm7
F7   F9   G Em7 Fm7
F7   F9   G

VERSO 1
F7        G       Em7     F7
Leaf by leaf and page by page
            G     Em7     F7
Throw this book away
         G      Em7      F7
All the sadness all the rage
            G     Em7     F7
Throw this book away

VERSO 2
F7           G        Em7         F7
Rip out the binding and tear the glue
          G       Em7  F7
All the grief we never even knew
    G     Em7   F7
We had it all along
F7  G
Now  it's ... smoke

F7  F9  G Em7 F7
F7  F9  G Em7 G/F F7

VERSO 3
F7        G            Em7   F7
All the things we've written in it
              G        Em7       F7
Never really happened
          G            Em7   F7
All the things we've written     in it
              G        Em7       F7
Never really happened

VERSO 4
F7          G     Em7      F7
All of the people come and gone
              G          Em7     F7
Never really lived / And all the people 
F7       G        Em7   F7
come have gone.   No    one 
F7     G
to forgive... Smoke

F7  F9  G Em7 F7
F7  F9  G Em7 F7 G/F F7

BRIDGE
C   C   Am7          Am7    Em7-F7
We will not write a new one
C      C   Am7       Am7
There will not be a new one, 
 G/F       F7
ano - ther one, 
 G/F       F7
ano - ther one

VERSO 5
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

VERSO 6
Here is the time 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
     G         F7   G        F7  G       F7
They are smoke,          smoke,          smoke

F7

BRIDGE
C   C   Am7          Am7    Em7-F7
We will not write a new one
C      C   Am7       Am7
There will not be a new one, 
 G/F       F7
ano - ther one, 
 G/F       F7
ano - ther one

F7 G Em7 F7
F7 G Em7 F7

VERSO 7
Where do all the secrets live
They travel in the air
You can smell them when they burn
They travel

VERSO 8
Those who say the past is not dead
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
     F7
Smoke