Ghost Town

by Paul Kelly

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Today I thought I saw you

Standing on the corner

I was just about to call your name I nearly touched her

Then she turned and suddenly it all came crashing down

Just my imagination playing tricks in ghost town

This moring I lay sleeping

I heard some footsteps creeping

Standing right beside me at my bed I felt your breathing

You said 'Daddy can I come inside and lay my body down?'

The sun came in, I woke up hard and empty in ghost town

Now I wander everywhere

Talking to the air

And every day just like the day before in countless numbers

And every night the curtain falls upon the day gone down

and every single town that I pass through is a ghost town

transcribed by Simon Whitaker simonj@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au