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)

And when I wake the things

I dreamt about you last night

make me blush (don't 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

In love with your ghost

In love with your ghost

You are shadowing my dreams