smoke Lyrics

I know you were here

The smell of smoke and worn flannel tell me you were sitting right here in this old, beat up chair

Reasoning with how you navigated here

When your tall, wooden clock screams the hour and takes your heart to hide that this is all your fault

The candlelight by my bedside wont trick what I want fixed

I blow it out at the creek of your step and its a start

Oh it's the start

Oh no

I wake up

Walk in

Worry and wonder where you are

You warned me not to dance around the fire or I'll get burnt

But If I already hurt

Then I'll let the smoke lead me out of my room and into the woods

I know you were here

The smell of smoke and old coffee tell me you were sitting right here in this old hoarded home

My boots lay by the door and I can feel a storm

But come October I'll feel better

The wicked trees cover me

Jack o' lanterns on every corner

Then I'll meet the girls in the woods

We turn through pages of poetry

Walk down halls some would call spooky, but then

I wake up

Walk in

Worry and wonder where you are

You warned me not to dance around the fire or I'll get burnt

But If I already hurt

Then I'll let the smoke lead me out of my room and into the woods

Oh these woods I wondered as a child

Can we have a campfire in the backyard?

Heard of the fay folk?

They go by many names but they say they'll get you if you go off in these woods alone

So don't leave

Cause the hermit I am is the hermit you'll be

I give to you the burden I bring

I hear the owl

It has a bone to pick with you

It leaves a crack in the glass that shatters this broken home

So the crow lands on your porch

He sees your bourbon poured

He watched me scatter from the ash and smoke

Then I, I, I

I awoke

Walked away

In whimsy

I wonder where I'll go as I follow the smoke out of my room and into the woods

I move around the flame

It haunts him

Oh it burns but it does not hurt like he said

As I dance around the fire

Oh it burns like he said it would but it does not hurt

It doesn't hurt

Yes it burns like he said it would

But it does not hurt

It feels good to finally be rid from the hurt