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