Ghost

There's a letter on my desktop
That I dug out of my drawer,
The last truce we ever came to
In our adolescent war;
And I start to feel a fever
From the warm air through the screen.
You come regular like seasons,
Shadowing my dreams.

And the Missisippi's mighty,
But it starts in Minessota
At a place where you could walk across
With five steps down.
And I guess that's how you started,
Like a pin-prick to my heart,
But at this point you rush right through me,
And I start to drawn.

There's not enough room in this world for my pain.
Signals cross, and love gets lost;
The time path makes it plain.
Of all my demon spirits
I need you the most.
I am in love with your ghost.
I am in love with your ghost.

Dark and dangerous like a secret
That gets whispered in a hush.
When I wake up, things I dreamed 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 you memory like a piper.

And I feel it like a sickness
How this love is killing me,
I would walk into the fingers
Of your fire willingly
And dance the edge of sanity,
I've never been this close
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, my cry to be free?
Oh, I'm forever under lock and key
While 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.
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 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 than most,
In love with your ghost.

This is my favorite song by Indigo Girls. It's called Ghost. I swear their songs are addictive. I love almost every single one of them, and that's very strange, considering my quite eclectic taste. Oh, well. Indigo Girls truly are great!