Holding On To Smoke - Michel Polnareff

All your letters in the fire

One by one they go

Disappearing into flames

They make an eerie glow…

Holding on to smoke

You’re just smoke in the air

In the air

Holding on to smoke

You can never be held

Yet you’re everywhere

Fire can’t console me with

The lessons I have learned

Fire can’t consume your laugh

And memory can’t be burned

Holding on to smoke

You’re just smoke in the air

In the air

Holding on to smoke

You can never be held

Yet you’re everywhere

Like a fog across the land

Like the nighttime’s sound

Here you are, embracing me

And yet you can’t be found

Holding on to smoke

You’re just smoke in the air

In the air

Holding on to smoke

You can never be held

Yet you’re everywhere

Holding on to smoke

You’re just smoke in the air

In the air

Holding on to smoke

You can never be held

Yet you’re everywhere