Ben Folds Five

Smoke(Chords)

Ben Folds Five

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	        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
	        

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