Tick-tock went the watch on your wrist

Telling you softly of the minutes you've missed

Kneeling down with your head in the bowl

Telling yourself, there should never be days like this



Just when you thought that you had it down

You woke up dreaming of cocaine and clowns

Everybody knew that you sang the blues

No one could guess that you would sing them like this



CHORUS

Smoke and ashes

Smoke and ashes

A comet burns and then it crashes

Smoke and ashes



You spilled the beans on Friday night

Now Monday's here and there's no one in sight

But, hey, that's the price that you've got to pay

For letting yourself get your own way