[Refrain] Smoke before blood, Blood before confession, One man enters, All Israel waits. [Verse 1] Not at any hour, Not in garments of display: Linen after washing, A bullock for his house. At the doorway stood two goats; The lots divided their road. [Refrain] Smoke before blood, Blood before confession, One man enters, All Israel waits. [Verse 2] Coals crossed the curtain. Incense covered the mercy seat. Eastward fell the first red drops, Then seven before the throne. The people's blood followed Into rooms made unclean by those they sheltered. [Bridge] Hands came down on the living head: Every crookedness named, Every trespass laid there. A chosen man led the burden Past the last inhabited ground, And released it where no path returned. [Verse 3] Linen stayed behind. Water received the priest again. Outside the camp the bodies burned; Inside, the altar bore its cleansing. The tenth day held its breath, No labor, no boasting, only affliction. [Refrain] Smoke before blood, Blood before confession, Once in the year, The whole camp made clean. [Outro] One goat left no grave.