Ghost

No capo; each chord is half a measure.

D/F# G C(9) G/B (repeating, fading in)

intro

D/F# G C(9) G/B

There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer

D/F# G C(9) G/B

The last truce we ever came to from our adolescent war

D/F# G C(9) G/B

And I start to feel the fever from the warm air through the screen

D/F# G C(9) G6/B C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6

You come regular like seasons, shadowing my dreams

D(9)/F# G6 C(9) G6/B

The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota

D(9)/F# G6 C(9) G6/B

At a place that you could walk across with five steps down

D(9)/F# G6 C(9) G6/B

And I guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart

D(9)/F# G6 C(9) C(9)

But at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown

D D#dim Em7 A7sus - A7

And there's not enough room in this world for my pain

D D/C# Bm7 Bm7

Signals cross and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain

D D#dim Em7 A7sus - A7

Of all my demon spirits I need you the most

C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6

I'm in love with your ghost

C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6

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

C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6

In love with your ghost

C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6

Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo

C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6

Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo

Em7 Em7 A7sus A7

Unknowing captor, you'll never know how much you

D D/C# F#7sus4 F#7

Pierced my spirit, but I can't touch you

Bm Bm/A E7/G# G

Can you hear it, a cry to be free

B7 B7 Em E Am C D D/C G/B D

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

C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6

In love with your ghost

C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6

In love with your ghost (shadowing my dreams)

C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6

In love with your ghost (ooooooooh)

C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6

In love with your ghost (ooooooooh)

C(9) G/B D/F# G

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):

D/F# G C(9) G/B

E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B ------3-------3-------3-------3-|------3-------3-------3-------3-|
G --2-------2-------0-------0-----|--0-------0-------0-------0-----|
D ----0-------0-------0-------0---|----2-------2-------0-------0---|
A --------------------------------|3-------3-------2-------2-------|
E 2-------2-------3-------3-------|--------------------------------|

^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .

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):

D(9)/F# G6 C(9) G6/B

E ------0---------------0---------|------0---------------0---------|
B ----------3---------------3-----|----------3---------------3-----|
G --2-----------2---0-----------0-|--0-----------0---0-----------0-|
D ----0-------0-------0-------0---|----2-------2-------0-------0---|
A --------------------------------|3-------3-------2-------2-------|
E 2-------2-------3-------3-------|--------------------------------|

^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .

And then there's this little fill in the intro and outro:

D/F# G C(9) G/B

E --------------------------------|3-----2-----3-------------------|
B ----------3-----1-----0---------|----------------3---------------|
G ------0-------------------------|--------------------------------|
D 2/4-------------2-----0---------|--------------------------------|
A --------------------------------|3---------------2---------------|
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|

^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .

- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com