Ghost Notes

from Living Is Trying by John Davey

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lyrics

so we doctored pictures, fudged the numbers, cooked the books
all in the mighty name of better looks
I was on a fast train to an absence where you were not
time was all it really took
‘cause these winters, even mild ones, in the interim
make this seem unworkable

but all of the ghost notes in between
they visit me while I am sleeping
making their way in single file
down to the epicenter of my healing mind, my healing mind

I shied from fire, you ran through it, how’d you do it?
you got on free to the other side
I’m a coward, you’re defiant in the firing line
look your doom right in the eyes
‘cause all these doors keep openin’, you walk through ‘em
and you’re wondering what the hell I’m doing
‘cause I falter even in my mother tongue

all of the ghost notes in between
they visit me while I am sleeping
making their way in single file
down to the epicenter of my crazy psyche damage
and my healing mind

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from Living Is Trying, released October 29, 2014

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A songwriter and recording artist in Marquette, Michigan.
A tree transplanted; West Lafayette, Indiana / Nashville, Tennesee

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