GHOST (Emily Saliers) --------------------- [No capo; each chord is half a measure.]
D/F# G C(9) G/B (repeating, fading in) [intro]
There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer
The last truce we ever came to from our adolescent war
And I start to feel the fever from the warm air through the screen
You come regular like seasons, shadowing my dreams
The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota
At a place that you could walk across with five steps down
And I guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart
But at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown
- And there's not enough room in this world for my pain
Signals cross and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain - Of all my demon spirits I need you the most
I'm in love with your ghost
I'm in love with your ghost
Dark and dangerous like a secret that gets whispered in a hush When I wake the things I dreamt about you last night make me blush When you kiss me like a lover, then you sting me like a viper I go follow to the river, play your memory like the piper
And I feel it like a sickness, how this love is killing me But I'd walk into the fingers of your fire willingly And dance the edge of sanity, I've never been this close
In love with your ghost
Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo
Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo
Unknowing captor, you'll never know how much you F#7sus4 Pierced my spirit, but I can't touch you E7/G# Can you hear it, a cry to be free
I'm forever under lock and key as you pass through me
Now I see your face before me, I would launch a thousand ships To bring your heart back to my island as the sand beneath me slips As I burn up in your presence, and I know now how it feels To be weakened like Achilles, with you always at my heels
And my bitter pill to swallow is the silence that I keep It poisons me, I can't swim free, the river is too deep Though I'm baptized by your touch, I am no worse at most
In love with your ghost
In love with your ghost (shadowing my dreams)
In love with your ghost (ooooooooh)
In love with your ghost (ooooooooh)
[instrumental: repeat and fade]
Notes on some chords: * If you don't want to play D#dim (xx1212), play B7/D# (xx1202) instead; it doesn't sound much different. * I think the Girls play F#11 (244300) where I've written F#7sus4 & F#7 (x44420 & x44320), and some god-awful G#m and Gmaj7 chords where I wrote E7 & G. Do whatever you think works best for you. * In the chorus, try playing the second half of D and D#dim (or B7/D#) with the third fret on the high E string. It matches the vocals that way.
TAB:
The picking pattern for the intro, first verse, and outro goes like this (note the continuous D note on the third fret of the B string):
For the rest of the song, where it goes D(9)/F# G6 C(9) G6/B, it's a little trickier (HINT: the thumb handles all the notes on the E, A, and D strings):
