"Give me the ghost back" (Future Islands) Aerolitos (55)

1/2/24

I′m just an animal that strains against my line

I push and pull the cord, to make me feel alive

I had to fight to wrest the reins back on my life

Here come the stars again

Here come those scars again

 

How quickly we become the things that we despise

I talked her out of it, another lost the child

So many questions, stalking through me, day and night

Gimme the ghost back

Gimme the ghost back

 

What goes when I relinquish sin?

What's that beating in?

What goes when I face who I′ve been?

It's that old grief again

Woah-ahh

 

Terror is a long dark night

Half awake with the ones who died

The ones who tried

To say 'goodbye′ to that cold white light

Face to face but we have to try

To face the night

 

Two hundred million feel they′re underneath a knife

A million others, can't forget what we can′t hide

Saw one friend overdose, another took his life

Gimme the ghost back

Gimme my ghost back

 

Terror is a long sharp knife

Regret and fear have an appetite

Appetite

So say goodbye to that old white knight

No fairytale ending for the night

Just death and life

 

Say goodbye to that cold white light

Goodbye

Say goodbye to that cold white light

Goodbye, to the ones who tried to face the night

 

Here come the stars again

Here come the stars again