Ghost
Indigo Girls Lyrics

There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer
I found a letter buried away that reminds me of our past struggles.

The last truce we ever came to In our adolescent war
We made a promise to never fight like that again, but we never kept it.

And I start to feel the fever From the warm air through the screen
Every time I think of you I feel the passion we once had.

You come regular like seasons Shadowing my dreams
You haunt me with memories that come at certain times like clockwork.

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
The Mississippi river is powerful, but it begins small in Minnesota, just like our love started small and grew over time.

But at this point you rush right through me And I start to drown
Your love is so strong that it overwhelms me and I lose control.

And there's not enough room In this world for my pain Signals cross and love gets lost And time passed makes it plain
My pain is so great that it seems to consume everything, even love and memories of happier times.

Of all my demon spirits I need you the most I'm in love with your ghost I'm in love with your ghost
You are the only one who can save me from my inner demons, and I still love you even though you are gone.

Dark and dangerous like a secret (don't tell a soul) That gets whispered in a hush
You were mysterious and exciting, like a secret whispered from person to person.

When I wake the things I dreamed about you (don't tell a soul) Last night make me blush
My dreams about you are so intimate and intense that they make me feel embarrassed to even think of them.

And 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
You were sweet one minute and cruel the next, and I followed you blindly like a musician playing a tune.

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
This love is so intense that it feels like a sickness, but I would still follow you even if it meant losing my mind.

I've never been this close In love with your ghost, ooh Ooh
I've never felt so connected to someone who is no longer here, and it hurts.

Unknowing captor You never know how much you Pierce my spirit But I can't touch you
You hold me captive even though you are not aware of it, and it hurts me deeply that I cannot be with you.

Can you hear it A cry to be free Oh I'm forever under lock and key As you pass through me
I want to be free from this love, but it is impossible, and you still affect me even though you are gone.

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 still love you so much that I would do anything to be with you, even if it is impossible and slipping away like sand.

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
Being near you is both exhilarating and exhausting, and I feel vulnerable and weak like the great warrior Achilles.

This bitter pill I 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 than most In love with your ghost (in love with your ghost)
I keep my feelings bottled up inside, and it is slowly destroying me. Even though I am consumed by your memory, it is not such a terrible thing compared to how others have loved and lost.

You are shadowing my dreams (In love with your ghost) (In love with your ghost)
Your memory haunts me in my dreams, and I cannot escape it.