Ghost

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 start to feel the fever from the warm air through the screen

You come regular like seasons shadowing my dreams, mm

And the Mississippi's mighty but it starts in Minnesota

At a place you could walk across with five steps down

And I guess that's how it 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 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 that gets whispered in a hush

When I wake the things I dreamt about you last night make me blush

When you kiss me like a lover then 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

I'd walk into the fingers of your fire willingly

And dance the edge of sanity I've never been this close

In love with your ghost

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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?

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

Bring your heart back to my island as the sand beneath me slips

And 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

In love with your ghost

I'm still in love

You're shadowing, shadowing my dreams

Shadow in my dreams