Ghost Lyrics

there's a letter on the desktop 
that i dug out of a drawer
the last truce we ever came to 
in our adolescent war
and i start to feel the fever 
from the warm air through the screen
you come regular like seasons
shadowing my dreams

and the mississippi's mighty
but it starts in minnesota
at a place that you could walk across 
with five steps down
and I guess that's how you started 
like a pinprick to my heart
but at this point you rush right through me 
and i start to drown

and there's not enough room 
in this world for my pain
signals cross and love gets lost 
and time passed makes it plain
of all my demon spirits 
i need you the most
i'm in love with your ghost
i'm in love with your ghost

dark and dangerous like a secret 
that gets whispered in a hush
(don't tell a soul)
when i wake the things i dreamt about you 
last night make me blush
(don't tell a soul)
and you kiss me like a lover 
then you sting me like a viper
i go follow to the river 
play your memory like a piper

and i feel it like a sickness 
how this love is killing me
i'd walk into the fingers 
of your fire willingly
and dance the edge of sanity 
i've never been this close
i'm in love with your ghost

unknowing captor
you never know how much you 
pierce my spirit
but i can't touch you
can you hear it
a cry to be free
oh i'm forever under lock and key
as you pass through me

now i see your face before me 
i would launch a thousand ships
to bring your heart back to my island 
as the sand beneath me slips
as i burn up in your presence 
and i know now how it feels
to be weakened like achilles 
with you always at my heels

this bitter pill i swallow 
is the silence that i keep
it poisons me i can't swim free 
the river is too deep
though i'm baptized by your touch
i am no worse than most
in love with your ghost

you are shadowing my dreams
(in love with your ghost)
(in love with your ghost)
(in love with your ghost)


words and music emily saliers
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