artist:  Ben Folds Five
song:    Smoke
album:   Whatever and Ever, Amen
trans.:  Brent Ritchey ([email protected]) 

INTRO
Fmaj7  Fmaj9  G  Em7  Fmaj7  
Fmaj7  Fmaj9  G  Em7  Fmaj7 
Fmaj7  Fmaj9  G  Em7  Fmaj7  
Fmaj7  Fmaj9  G  

VERSE 1
Fmaj7   G        Em7     Fmaj7 
Leaf by leaf and page by page
           G         Em7  Fmaj7
Throw this book away
        G       Em7       Fmaj7
All the sadness all the rage
           G        Em7  Fmaj7
Throw this book away

VERSE 2
Rip out the binding and tear the glue
All the grief we never even knew
We had it all along
Fmaj7  G
Now    it's smoke

Fmaj7  Fmaj9  G  Em7  Fmaj7  
Fmaj7  Fmaj9  G  Em7  G/F  Fmaj7    

VERSE 3
All the things we've written in it
Never really happened
All the things we've written in it
Never really happened

VERSE 4
All of the people come and gone
Never really lived
And all the people come have gone
No one to forgive
Smoke

Fmaj7  Fmaj9  G  Em7  Fmaj7  
Fmaj7  Fmaj9  G  Em7  Fmaj7  G/F  Fmaj7  

BRIDGE
C       Am7                 Em7  Fmaj7     
We will not write a new one
C          Am7                 
There will not be a new one, 
 G/F  Fmaj7     G/F   Fmaj7
ano -  ther one, ano - ther one

VERSE 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

VERSE 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          Fmaj7  G        Fmaj7  G       Fmaj7
They are smoke,          smoke,          smoke

Fmaj7 

BRIDGE
We will not write a new one
There will not be a new one
Another one
Another one

Fmaj7  G  Em7  Fmaj7
Fmaj7  G  Em7  Fmaj7  

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

VERSE 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
      Fmaj7
Smoke