Like Smoke

Slowly I moved through the house and closed all the windows

Clouds formed above us, as black as the teeth at the back of your mouth

I will drape a sheet over my head like a halloween ghost

We will rise above the city like smoke

We scattered my grandfather's ashes in a plant pot of fuchsias

Earlier that day surrounded by my cousins and my brothers

You wore a tulip and I wore a great big rose

We will rise above the city like smoke

Drugged now, dancing out of time with the record

You come flying faster than blood flows

With the weight of the world on your shoulders, you float

We will rise above the city like smoke

One fist shaped like an oven, one wrist like a chimney stack

The heavens open and contrary to rumour the heavens are black

And we find ourselves responding like it's all a great big joke

We will rise above the city like smoke

My dad's on the telephone and his voice is trembling

He has a hard time letting go, he has a hard time remembering

I can understand him clearly though there's something in his throat