Smoke
There are many visions of how our world will end, but every one of them shows it disappearing in plumes of smoke. The
evocative lyrics to the song Smoke capture scenes that speak to the role fire and smoke play for good and evil.
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Before you know it's here it's gone
you shake your head to clear your sight;
a moment's shadow on the sun
hides itself in heat and light.
Smokestacks line the drab horizon
the furnaces glow with iron ore;
coal trains rumble cross the trestle
the mill is burning to the floor.
Chorus:
Wood and coal and gas and coke,
the world burns, the world chokes
the whole world's going up in smoke
the whole world's going up in smoke.
Mom stands at the kitchen window
waiting for the dirty dawn
a Lucky Strike burns in her fingers
the ashes fall, the smoke hangs on.
The lunatic with matchstick poised
the Zippo lighter's open click;
the brown bag luminary glowing
marshmallows flaming on the stick.
Chorus
In Bangladesh a woman cooks
mercury from motherboards.
A child clinging to her hair
giggles when the poison's poured
The peat is dug, the smudge-pot lit,
the priest swings the incenser wide.
The pyre is piled tall and heavy
smoke hides the face of he who died.
Chorus
The lightning strike, the chance occurrence,
for heat on the mid-winter plain,
a man puts meat into a fire
a partnership in smoke is made.
Smoke led Moses cross the desert
smoke curls round the Devil's horn;
it followed fire at the beginning
it will remain when we are gone.
Chorus
© Tom Barlow 2018
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