Stepanian - Smoke

Stepanian Band Musick from Boston USA!

Smoke
Words and Music by Eric Stepanian
Additional words by Dan Morris

I was standing on a corner down on Broadway
From a phone booth I was hoping she would call me
You left a letter lying face down in my hallway
"California, Love Ally"

Autumn she leaves as I crumble from the weather
My heart in pieces saying please return to sender
Through it all I resign myself to wonder
Why the little things I remember

All these moments as they pass
I cannot find a reason to laugh
There's just so much I can't forget
Catching smoke in a butterfly net

Inside a box I place my love to see another day
Tangled in tomorrow I make my great escape
You're burning like the fullest moon as I try to turn away
I'm taken by the shutter that has left me in this frame

All these moments we've been through
The laughter's been our parachute
There's so much I won't regret
Catching smoke in a butterfly net

Seems like yesterday I was so alone
Stepped outside and the weather seemed so cold
I tried to reason with her slowly
She talked with her hands
And her eyes didn't know me

Looking backwards though I'm moving slow
Just not sure about the way that you go
Time after time I'd believe what you say
But that way then now I'm on my way