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Anyone’s Ghost (Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music) Lyrics by The National

High Violet (Expanded Edition)

2010

[Verse 1]
You say you stayed home
Alone with the flu
Find out from friends
That wasn't true
Go out at night with your headphones on
Again
And walk through the Manhattan valleys of
The dead
[Chorus]
Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
[Refrain]
But I don't want anybody else
I don't want anybody else
[Verse 2]
You said I came close
As anyone's come
To live underwater
For more than a month
You said it was not inside my heart
It was
You said it should tear a kid apart
It does
[Chorus]
Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
[Refrain]
But I don't want anybody else
I don't want anybody else
I don't want anybody else
I don't want anybody else
[Bridge]
I had a hole in the middle where the lightning went through
I told my friends not to worry
I had a hole in the middle, someone's sideshow to do
I told my friends not to worry
[Chorus]
Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
Credits
The National

The National

About “Anyone’s Ghost (Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music)” by The National

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