GHOST - Indigo Girls

There’s a letter on the desk top I dug out of a drawer

The last truce we ever came to in our adolescent war

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

You come regular like seasons, freely through my dreams

And the Mississippi’s mighty, but it starts in Minnesota

At a place that you could walk across with five steps down

And I guess that’s how you started, like a pinprick to my heart

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 cross 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

You kiss me like a lover;

then you sting me like a viper

I go follow to the river;

play your memory like a piper

And I feel it like a sickness how this love is killing me I walk into the fingers of your fire willingly

We dance the edge of sanity;

I’ve never been this close

I’m in love with your ghost

Unknowing captor, you never know how much you pierce my spirit

But I can’t touch you — can you hear it — the cry to be free?

I’m forever under lock and key

For you pass through me When 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

As 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 I swallow is the silence that I keep

It poisons me;

I can’t swim free;

the river is too deep

I’m baptized by your (…) worse than most

I’m in love with your ghost.