Ghost

There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer

The last truce we ever came to from our adolescent war

And I start to feel the fever of the warm air through the screen

You come regular like seasons shadowing my dreams



The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota

At a place where you can walk across with five steps down

And that's just how you started like a pinprick to my heart

But at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown



There's not enough room in this world for my pain

Signals crossed 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 it gets whispered in a hush (don't tell a soul)



tell a soul)

When you kiss me like a lover and you sting me like a viper

I go follow to the river play your memory like the piper



And I feel it like a sickness how this love is killing me

But I would walk into the fingers of your fire willingly

Dance the edge of sanity I've never been this close

In love with your ghost

oooooh-oooooooh-ooooooh-oooooooooh

oooooh-oooooooh-ooooooh-oooooooooh



Unknowing captor you'll 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

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 to 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 at most

In love with your ghost