Elliott Smith - New Disaster lyrics

Ghost of your smile is always looking for

New bodies to haunt

And it's been here, it is up here

He's hanging around and he'll float for a while

Gradually gone

It's pleasing and freezing

While 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's the same in this long knowing 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 try to tame your master

You just blow through the coals

Blow through the coals

Till 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

You're waiting to start, waiting to light

Wait until dark

I told you man

I told you

While I wonder what it is you're after

Keeping company with this disaster

Why you never try to tame your master