Your Ghost (Kristin Hersh cover) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by audcat 

Cover art for Your Ghost (Kristin Hersh cover) lyrics by Greg Laswell

what is a "blaze across your nightgown"? i love that part of the song but i don't get it. does he mean an actual flame?

The original song by Kristen Hersh says, "Blaze across my nightgown."

Before I knew it was a cover I thought that meant the girl he was singing about died in a fire but since the lyrics are the above... It's a bit cryptic.

She may have meant like... A flash of light at night while she walks. It reminds her of the person she lost. It's like a flashback I guess. I dunno though.

The rest of the song is pretty obvious though.

I think he means blood. Think about it, a blaze is red, if it's down her nightgown I'd infer that its red blood.

This song is really deep, but for some reason I think it refers to murder.

When a car goes by a house at night, the headlights come through the window and go across the wall as the car moves. This could be the "blaze" across her nightgown. Couple this with the line "I think last night you were driving circles around me," and it seems quite probable.