Chords for Folk Alley Sessions at 30A: Indigo Girls - “Ghost”

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_ _ [G] _ [D] There's a letter on [Gm] the desktop [C] I dug out of [G] the drawer
The last [D] truce we [G] ever came to The [C] Mara [G] adolescent war
I [D] start to [G] feel the fever From [C] the warm air through the [G] screen
You [D] come regular [G] like [C] seasons Shadowing [D] my [C] dream _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] Mississippi's mighty But [C] it starts in [G]
Minnesota
[D] At a place you [G] could walk [C] across With five [G] steps down
And I [D] guess that's how [G] you started Like [C] a pinprick to [G] my heart
But at [D] this point you rush [G] right through me [C] And I start to drown
And [D] there's not [A] enough room in [Em] this world for my [A] _ [D] pain
Signals [F#m] cross, love gets [Bm] lost, time passed makes it plain
[D] From all my demon [A] [Em] spirits I need you [E] the [C] most
[G] I'm in love with [D] your [G] ghost _ I'm [C] in [G] love with your [D] _ [G] ghost _ _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] Dark and dangerous [G] like a secret [C] It's [G] whispered in a [E] hush
And I wake with [G] things I've learned about [C] you Last night [G] make me blush
[D] You kiss me [G] like a lover And [C] you sting me [G] like a viper
I [D] go follow [G] to the river [C] Play your memory like the piper
And [D] I feel it [A] like a sickness [Em] How this love is killing [A] _ me
I [D] walk into [A] the fingers of [Bm] your fire willingly
[A] And down the edge of [Em] sanity I've never [A] been this _ [C] close
[G] In love with [A] your _ [G] ghost
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[C] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _
_ [Em] Unknown chapter You'll never know [A] how much you
Kiss [D] my spirit _
_ [B] I [F#] can't touch you _ _
[Bm] I hear [F#m] it I cry to [Bm] be free
_ _ _ [B] _ I'm the [Em] fire I can't [E] keep
[Am] As you _
[C] pass [D] through me
[A] _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ Now I see your face [G] before me [C] I would launch a thousand [G] ships
Bring your [D] heart back to [G] my island As [C] the sand [G] beneath me slips
As [D] I burn up in [G] your presence And I know now how it feels
To be [D] weakened [G] like Achilles With [C] you always at my heels
[D] And my bitter pill [A] to swallow [Em] Is the silence that [E] I [A] keep
[D] Your voice [A] tells me I can't swim free [G] The river is too deep
[A] Though I'm baptized by your touch I [Em] am no [A] worse at most
[C] In [G] love with [D] your _ _ [G] _
ghost
[C] In [G] love [E] with your ghost
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