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Ghosts Lyrics by Skulltalk

The Tell-Tale Heart

2025

[Epigraph: Deer Hit (Abridged) by Jon Loomis]
You’re seventeen and tunnel-vision drunk, swerving your father’s Fairlane wagon home at 3:00 a.m. Two-lane road, all curves and dips—dark woods, a stream, a patchy acre of teazle and grass. You don’t see the deer till they turn their heads. You crank the wheel, skid and jolt into the ditch. Glitter and crunch of broken glass in your lap, deer hair drifting like dust
You get out. The deer lies on its side. A doe, spinning itself around in a frantic circle, front legs scrambling, back legs paralyzed, dead. Making a sound— again and again this terrible bleat. You watch for a while. It tires, lies still. And here's what you do: pick thе deer up like a bride. Wrestlе it into the back of the car— the seat folded down. Somehow, you steer the wagon out of the ditch and head home, night rushing in through the broken window. Your nose throbs, something stabs in your side. The deer breathing behind you, shallow and fast. You’re almost home and the deer scrambles to life, its long head appears like a ghost in the rearview mirror and bites you, its teeth clamp down on your shoulder and maybe you scream, till the deer, exhausted, lets go and lies down
What can you tell your father—you weren’t thinking, you’d injured your head? You wanted to fix what you’d broken—restore the beautiful body? The deer shudders and bleats in the driveway. Your father walks to the toolshed, comes back lugging a concrete block. Some things stay with you. Dumping the body deep in the woods, like a gangster. The dent in your nose
All your life, the trail of ruin that you leave
[Intro]
Forcing a heartbeat in life
Guilt presides within my mind
I don't want to do this, no
I don't want to do this-
[Verse]
Forcing a melody in my mind
Harmonize the disagreement
I collapse in the face of strife
Missing empty net
I got beat by the bell
I tripped over my shoelace
And I wish it blew my mind
You said I don't deserve to feel bad
You said I need to die
Again, one more time?
[Chorus]
Mercy killing in the street
What's a life if life's not free?
I shoulder this with me everywhere I go
[Refrain]
Ghosts, let me go
Ghosts (Got a ghost, got a break in the walls)
Let me go (Got a ghoul, got a break in the halls, gotta see it)
To sleep (Got a ghost, got a break in the walls, got a ghoul, got a break in the halls, gotta see it)
[Chorus]
Mercy killing in the street
What's a life if life's not free?
I shoulder this with me everywhere I go
[Refrain]
Ghosts, let me go
Ghosts (Got a ghost, got a break in the walls)
Let me go (Got a ghoul, got a break in the halls, gotta see it)
To sleep (Got a ghost, got a break in the walls, got a ghoul, got a break in the halls, gotta see it)
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Skulltalk

Skulltalk

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