Ghost

Neutral Milk Hotel

Ghost, ghost,


I know you were within me,


Feel as you fly


In from the clouds above the city


Into one that I


Loved with all that was left within me


Till we tore in two,


Now wings and rings,


And there're so many waiting here for you.





And she was born in a bottle-rocket,


1929,


With wings that ringed around a socket


Right between her spine


All drenched in milk in holy water pouring from the sky,


I know that she will live forever,


She won't ever die,


She goes,


And now she knows she'll never be afraid,


To watch the morning paper blow into a hole


where no-one can escape,


De, de, de…..





And one day in New York City baby,


A girl fell from the sky,


From the top of a burning apartment building


fourteen stories high,


And when her spirit left her body,


How it split the sun!


I know that she will live forever


All goes on and on and on and


She goes,


And now she knows she'll never be afraid


To watch the morning paper blow into a hole


where no-one can escape,


De, de, de.