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Ghosts Lyrics by Danny Schmidt

Parables and Primes

2005

[Intro]
Swing swing, gallows swing
From anger back to sorrow
Morning gets what midnight brings
And I’ll be dead tomorrow
Just another ghost

[Verse 1]
My wife left me last wintertime to join another man
I lost her love forever and I lost my mind right then
When I tried but couldn’t picture her sweet face inside my head
I could only see her lover’s grin; it’s true I killed him dead

[Verse 2]
I’ve always been an honest man, as crystal as the sea
I’ve always said when I’ve done wrong, and I’ve said when wrong’s done me
So listen to my warning though I know it might sound strange
To those who cast condoning eyes upon me when I hang

[Verse 3]
And let me tell you what I’ve learned, what my guilty mind has seen
Of life and then of death and then how ghosts get stuck between
There’s no slamming doors, no rattling chains, no long black veils at night
But you’d wish there was cause then you might could die to put things right

[Verse 4]
Ghosts have got no bodies left, and ghosts have got no will
They're etchings on your conscience by the hands that had them killed
And the world it all looks yellow now, and every breath turns foul
The water tastes like rancid oil, and the mockingbirds just howl

[Verse 5]
You can never touch someone you love, it’ll burn them if you try
And the face inside the mirror stares back with goldfish bowls for eyes
The only dream you ever have is of lying there awake
It never rains upon your head, it spits into your face

[Bridge]
A ghost has haunted me
And worn me thin
I got what I deserved a thousand times again
Oh listen please
To my final words
Before you bring yourself to watch the final length of cord

[Verse 6]
'Cause ghosts don’t die when hands take hands, and ghosts are not released
It’s dust to dust and ash to ash; beast and back to beast
I hope your heart is large and that there’s room enough in you
For the ghost you choose to make of me and the ghost that haunts me, too

[Coda]
Swing swing, gallows swing
From anger back to sorrow
Hide your eyes and wash your wings
'Cause I’ll be dead tomorrow
Just another ghost

Just another ghost [x3]
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Danny Schmidt

Danny Schmidt

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"Ghosts" appears on "Parables and Primes" in 2005.

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