The doors are locked and the curtains are drawn
The lights are off but the tv’s still on
A cigarette burning on the desk
I can’t see you but you never left
You’ll still be here when you can

Do you need me to guide you through
the daily disappearing act you put me up to
you soak your cigarettes, you’re up all night
you can call me up and everything’s alright
yeah you will be there if you can

yeah it’s the same old ghost story that never ends
stupid disappearing act and we’re still friends
you light another cigarette and start it agian
i can’t see but you’re never there
and you’ll still be there when you can

I don’t want you to sleep with me
I just need you to set me free
there’s a cigarette burning on my bed
makes it hard to fall asleep with you in my bed
but you’ll still be there when i’m dead

yeah it’s the same old ghost story that never ends
stupid disappearing act and we’re still friends
yeah light a fucking (?) cigarette and start it again
the doors are locked and the curtains are drawn
the lights are off but the tv’s still on
there’s a cigarette burning on my bed
and you’ll still be there when i’m dead

been telling myself that it passes in time,
that the words they erode as the light goes dim,
and in time there will be peace and that time will erase

and that time can break you down.
held hostage by the past,
held hostage by those days,
and you want to escape and you want to remain, here.

please dont let me forget.
living in this disconnect.

there are those times when you connect to the space
left empty by the words
you never exchanged, and you never heard.
those words we simply felt.
been breaking yourself,
youve been counting on time and time
can take so much to believe in.
wish me luck, let me remember.

please dont let me forget.
living in this disconnect.

and it scares me to know that one day i wont be haunted by your ghost
(stay with me)
that one day ill lay awake and struggle to remember a face
(stay with me)
it will be lost ill breathe, remembering that i wont remember anything
(stay with me)
it never stops.

I watch the Western sky
The sun is sinking
The geese are flying South
It sets me thinking

I did not miss you much
I did not suffer
What did not kill me
Just made me tougher

I feel the winter come
His icy sinews
Now in the fire light
The case continues

Another night in court
The same old trial
The same old questions asked
The same denial

The shadows closely run
Like jury members
I look for answers in
The fire's embers

Why was I missing then
That whole December
I give my usual line:
I don't remember

Another winter comes
His icy fingers creep
Into these bones of mine
These memories never sleep

And all these differences
A cloak I borrow
We kept our distances
Why should it follow I must have loved you

What is the force that binds the stars
I wore this mask to hide my scars
What is the power that pulls the tide
I never could find a place to hide

What moves the Earth around the sun
What could I do but run and run and run
Afraid to love, afraid to fail
A mast without a sail

The moon's a fingernail and slowly sinking
Another day begins and now I'm thinking
That this indifference was my invention
When everything I did sought your attention

You were my compass star
You were my measure
You were a pirate's map
A buried treasure

If this was all correct
The last thing I'd expect
The prosecution rests
It's time that I confess: I must have loved you