New Disaster - Elliott Smith

The ghost of your smile is always looking

For new bodies to haunt

And its been here and disappeared

It’s hanging around aloofly for a while

Gradually gone

It’s pleasing and freezing

Well, I wonder what it is you’re after

Keeping company with this disaster

You looked all over town

Got turned around

To walk back through the mud

The kind you had left behind you

Everybody is the same in this long no-win game

Where every new blood

Gets time to become resigned

Now I wonder what it is you’re after

Keeping company with this disaster

Why you never tried to tame your master

You just blow through the coals

Blow through the coals

Blow through the coals

Until everyone knows that your smile is just a ghost

The ghost of your smile was seen on a body in the park

It’s old news

You see that it’s no use

Waiting to start

Waiting to light

Waiting until dark

I told you, man

I told you

Well, I wonder what it is you’re after

Keeping company with this disaster

Why you never tried to tame your master