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Grey Ghost Lyrics

Oh in the grey
Grey ghost that I call home
In the great
Stony lonesome I call home
In the grey
Grey ghost that I call home
In the grey grey ghost that I call home

Oh he will not
Walk out the river now
He will not walk out the river
He will not walk out the river
Singing don't fall through the stars
Don't fall through them
Don't fall through the stars
Don't fall through them
On the docks in Memphis with the boombox, nodding out
Singing don't fall through the stars
Don't fall through them
Don¹t fall through the stars

In the trail of the barge
And the light upon the brine
He has slaked these thoughts
And the rostov undelighted, signing
Don't fall through the stars
Sleepy-eyed the man is wading out into the night
Singing don't fall through the stars
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Cover art for Grey Ghost lyrics by Mike Doughty

The song may be lyrically about Jeff Buckley, but the references to Grey Ghost and Stony Lonesome are to faculty housing facilities at West Point Military Academy where his dad was a History professor.

Cover art for Grey Ghost lyrics by Mike Doughty

This song is about the death of Jeff Buckley. Another New York artist who died in Nashville while recording a new album. See :'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Buckley'

Cover art for Grey Ghost lyrics by Mike Doughty

Jeff Buckley actually died in Memphis, hence the reference to Memphis in the song.

 
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