Ghosts Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][G][Am][F][Am][F]
[Am]

[Verse 1]
[Am]Swing,
swing, gallows swing
[F]From anger back to sorrow[Am][G]
Morning gets what midnight
[F]bri[C]ngs[Am]
And I'll be dead tomor[G]row
Just another [Am]ghost

[Verse 2]
[Am]
My wife left me last wintertime
[F]To join another man[Am]
[G]I lost her love [F]forever and I
[C]lost my mind right [G]then
And [Am]when I tried, but couldn't picture
[C]her swe[G]et face inside my hea[Am]d
[F]Could only see her lover's grin
[C]It'[G]s true, I killed him dea[Am]d
[F]

[Interlude 1]
[G][Am][F][Am][F][Am]

[Verse 3]
I've [Am]always been an honest man
[F]As crystal as the sea[Am]
[G]I've always said when I've done wrong
[F]And I've sai[C]d when
wrong's done [G]me
[Am]So listen to my warning thou[G]gh I
know it might sound [Am]strange
[F]To those who cast condoning eye[G]s upon me
when I [Am]hang

[Interlude 2]
[F][G][Am][F][Am][F][Am]

[Verse 4]
And [Am]let me tell you what I've learned,
What my [F]guilty mind [Am]has seen
[G]Of life and then of death and[F] then how
[C]ghosts get [F]stuck [G]between
There's [Am]no slamming doors, no [C]rattling chains,
[G]no long black veils at [Am]night
But you'd [F]wish there was 'cause then you might [G]could
die and put things [Am]right

[Interlude 3]
[F][G][Am][F][Am][F][Am]

[Verse 5]
And [Am]ghosts have got no bodies left
[F]And ghosts have got no wil[Am]l[G]
They're etchings on your conscience
by [F]the [C]hands that heaven [G]killed
[Am]The world, it all looks yell[C]ow now
And [G]every breath turns [Am]foul
[F]The water tastes like ran[C]cid oil
[G]And mockingbirds just how[Am]l

[Verse 6]
If you've [Am]never touched
someone you love
It'll [F]burn then if you [Am]try
[G]The face inside the[F] mirror stares back with
[C]cold fishbowls[G]for eyes[Am]
The only dream you [C]ever have
is [G]of lying there [Am]awake
[F]I never rains upon your head
[G]It spits into your fac[Am]e

[Verse 7]
A ghost just [F]haunted [C]me[G]
And warned me [Am]then
[F]That I got what I deser[C]ved
A [G]thousand times again
Oh, [Am]listen [F]please[C]
[G]To my final words[Am]
[F]Before you bring yourself to watch tha[G]t final bangle
of [Am]cord

[Interlude 4]
[F][G][C][G][Am][F][Am][F][Am]

[Verse 8]
'Cause [Am]ghosts don't die
when hands take hands
[F]And ghosts are not the lea[Am]st
[G]It's dust to dust and ash to [F]ash
[C]And from beast and back to [G]beast
[Am]I hope your heart is large[C] an that
[G]there's room enough in [Am]you
For the [F]ghost you chose to [C]make of me
[G]And the ghost that haunts me [Am]too
[F]

[Interlude 5]
[G][Am][F][Am][F][Am]

[Verse 9]
[Am]So swing, swing, gallows swing
[F]From anger back to sorrow[Am]
[G]You hide your eyes
and wash [F]your wings
[Am]'Cause I'll be dead tomor[G]row
Just another [Am]ghost
Just another [G]ghost[Am]
Just another [Am]ghost
Just [G]another ghost
[Am]