Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Happy birthday honey
Uh you've gone from a young lady to a mature woman here today
If that means anything to ya
I heard a laugh so deep and low
It shook awake
A lonely place
I built inside but never go it's
Walls are lined with the words you wrote
But they're tumbling down
I can't catch them now
Another spring we'll never know
Ghosts
Why they always teach the most
Never thought you would let me down like that
You're in the ground no coming back
Ghosts
Show me everything you know
I'm left trying to find the good but is it bad
I'm so bad that you abandoned me so fast
I never noticed a simple smell
Could be a butterfly to catch a flashback in
Dry me out and use your pin
To frame me next to your unfinished painting
So I'll be safe and never have to leave
Ghosts
Why they always teach the most
Never thought you would let me down like that
You're in the ground no coming back
Ghosts
Show me everything you know
I'm left trying to find the good but is it bad
I'm so bad that you abandoned me
In the middle of a storm in December
I kept blowing on a dying ember
Happily I went numb
Cause it meant we're frozen
Writing letters in the ice on the mountain side
Just to watch the day melt away the lines
So I begun to kill the sun
In hopes that you'd stay
My ghost
Why they always teach the most
Never thought you would let me down like that
You're in the ground come back
Ghost
Show me everything you know
I'm left trying to find the good but is it bad
I'm so mad that you abandoned me so fast
Uh you've gone from a young lady to a mature woman here today
If that means anything to ya
I heard a laugh so deep and low
It shook awake
A lonely place
I built inside but never go it's
Walls are lined with the words you wrote
But they're tumbling down
I can't catch them now
Another spring we'll never know
Ghosts
Why they always teach the most
Never thought you would let me down like that
You're in the ground no coming back
Ghosts
Show me everything you know
I'm left trying to find the good but is it bad
I'm so bad that you abandoned me so fast
I never noticed a simple smell
Could be a butterfly to catch a flashback in
Dry me out and use your pin
To frame me next to your unfinished painting
So I'll be safe and never have to leave
Ghosts
Why they always teach the most
Never thought you would let me down like that
You're in the ground no coming back
Ghosts
Show me everything you know
I'm left trying to find the good but is it bad
I'm so bad that you abandoned me
In the middle of a storm in December
I kept blowing on a dying ember
Happily I went numb
Cause it meant we're frozen
Writing letters in the ice on the mountain side
Just to watch the day melt away the lines
So I begun to kill the sun
In hopes that you'd stay
My ghost
Why they always teach the most
Never thought you would let me down like that
You're in the ground come back
Ghost
Show me everything you know
I'm left trying to find the good but is it bad
I'm so mad that you abandoned me so fast
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