Ghost of Me

Verse 1

Muddy

Boots on the carpet

Dragging in the wreckage of a life I thought I killed

Buried

In the backyard

Beside the hollow bottles and the promises I spilled

He's scratching

At the drywall

Right behind the mirror where the gray hair starts to show

He's begging

For a small taste

Waiting for a moment when the lights are burning low

Chorus

He won't stay dead

No he won't stay dead

That ghost is in the hallway

That ghost is in my bed

I tried to drown him

I tried to save him

But every time I think I'm free

He starts to hunt for me

The man I used to be

The man I used to be

Post-Chorus

Down in the dirt

Down in the dirt

Still digging up the hurt

Verse 2

Knuckles

Split and bleeding

Punched the heavy heavy heavy wooden door

Quiet

The house is sleeping

While I'm pacing back and forth across the kitchen floor

Found a cigarette

On the pavement

Just a little trigger in the middle of the night

Found a reason

To be angry

Shadows getting taller in the flickering porch light

Chorus

He won't stay dead

No he won't stay dead

That ghost is in the hallway

That ghost is in my bed

I tried to drown him

I tried to save him

But every time I think I'm free

He starts to hunt for me

The man I used to be

The man I used to be

Bridge

I look in the water

I look in the glass

I look for a future

But I see the past

Tell him to go

Tell him to leave

Give me some room

Just let me breathe

Chorus

He won't stay dead

No he won't stay dead

That ghost is in the hallway

That ghost is in my bed

I tried to drown him

I tried to save him

But every time I think I'm free

He starts to hunt for me

The man I used to be

The man I used to be

Outro

The man I used to be

Go back to the ground

Stay down

Stay down

Don't make a sound

Stay down