I’ll Be A Ghost

The porch light hums like a tired old tune

Dust on the glass, and the sky’s gone blue

Not day, not night, just the in-between

Where the world forgets what it used to mean

You left your coat on the cedar stair

Still smells like smoke and July in there

And the wind’s got teeth, but it sings so low

I think it knows what it’s like to go

So I light a match for the dark inside

Toss my name to the restless tide

If you ever come back this way again

I’ll be a ghost, but I’ll let you in

I’ll be a ghost, but I’ll let you in

I heard the trains like a hymn last night

Carving chords through the hills so wide

I counted stars till the whiskey won

And I dreamed of roads I’d never run

Your voice was soft like a winter field

All covered in frost, but it never healed

Now I write your name in the window steam

Watch it fade like a half-spoke dream

So I light a match for the dark inside

Toss my name to the restless tide

If you ever come back this way again

I’ll be a ghost, but I’ll let you in

I’ll be a ghost, but I’ll let you in

There’s a song in the trees when the wind gets low

Like an old friend hummin’ a tune I know

If you follow that sound where the sky turns thin

You might find the place where I’ve always been

So I light a match for the dark inside

Toss my name to the restless tide

If you ever come back this way again

I’ll be a ghost, but I’ll let you in

Yeah, I’ll be a ghost, but I’ll let you in