NOAH GUNDERSEN Carry The Ghost LYRICS
Slow Dancer
She watched the valley burn like a slow dancer doing turns
My name was on every tongue
And all of the smoke and ash
Like the memory of the time gone bad
Hanging like a shadow
To light it up again burn like a holy fire
Light me up again if it makes you feel free
Light me up again call me a snake and a liar
And I will be the fire that keeps you warm
Matches to gasoline I could not keep my fingers clean
Enough for your gunpowder heart
And as I lit the fuse and ran for cover where were you
Standing with your hands on the flame
Light it up again burn like a holy fire
Light me up again if it makes you feel free
Light me up again call me a snake and a liar
And I will be the fire that keeps you warm
Light it up again burn like a holy fire
Light me up again if it makes you feel free
Light me up again call me a snake and a liar
And I will be the fire that keeps you warm
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Halo (Disappear_Reappear)
Under my halo
I have trouble seeing clear
You held my hand tight
Waiting to watch me disappear
I wasn't honest
To tell you the truth
I wanted it all but I want you too
All of the lessons disappear
Still haven't learned to be comfortable here
Making my mind up
Making an effort is a start
It's easy to die here
Easier still just to fall apart
All the excuses; All the copouts
Take it like a man and shut your mouth
Yeah I could make it on my own
I watched my grandfather die alone
Now that I'm alone here
Feels so familiar; Feels so strange
Running in circles
Chasing the echoes of your name
When I try and tell you
You say I don't care
Goddamn it I do and don't you dare
Make me reason to get even for the flood of your tears
I watched you disappear
I was disappearing
You reappearing
I was disappearing
Disappearing
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Selfish Art
Sometime
Making songs for a living
Feels like living to make songs
And sometimes
I get an uneasy feeling
That I'm doing something wrong
'Cause nothing really feels like home
And I just want to be alone
Calculate the hours till the power in the well goes dry
I'm watching as the stage goes black
How long until we all go back
To being nothing at all
Nothing but a spark in someone's eye
Am I giving all that I can give
Am I earning the right to live
By looking in a mirror
There's nothing more sincere than selfish art
Sometimes
When I've got nothing to say
I think breaking a heart
Could maybe be the start of some new page
And sometimes
I play a couple war games
Using live ammunition
So I can fix what I'm missing
Most of my songs are true
Most of my songs are due to some broken people
So I could write a single
I'm watching as the stage goes black
How long until we all go back
To being nothing at all
Nothing but a spark in someone's eye
Am I giving all that I can give
Am I earning the right to live
By looking in a mirror
There's nothing more sincere than selfish art
I'm watching as the stage goes black
How long until we all go back
To being nothing at all
Nothing but a spark in someone's eye
Am I giving all that I can give
Am I earning the right to live
By looking in a mirror
There's nothing more sincere than selfish art
There's nothing more sincere than an empty heart
There's nothing more sincere than who we are
Than who we are
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Show Me The Light
I watched you watching Dylan like you’re watching a saint
And I could not help but notice everything he is I ain’t
So I filled up every notebook I could put to my hand
Hoping that you would not notice I was a boy and not a man
Back then
Singing you to sleep and making you laugh
Gave me a reason to work on my craft
Now that I’m older I finally see
You were the worst and the best thing that happened to me
I watched you watching Jesus like you’re watching a star
Started praying you’d find room for both of us in your heart
But the more I tried the more I’d find I could not pretend
To give a damn for your religion or for all your shitty friends
Back then
Every Sunday I would sit in your row
Praying that one day you would finally notice
But now that I’m older I finally see
You were the worst and the best thing that happened to me
Show me the light
Show me the light
I’ll take it from here honey
Show me the light
Show me the light
I’ll take it from here honey
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The Difference
Why try
Why try and fix it
Little doll
Little broken doll in stitches
Maybe you were made this way
Maybe the pieces were intentionally different
So why try
Why try and fix it
It’s all gonna change
If you were right
What makes it different
If you were wrong
Would you know the difference
Difference
So I hope
I hope I don’t miss it
Thought I know
I probably just won’t get it
Maybe we were made this way
Maybe we weren’t made
Maybe we just got here
Learning from our mistakes
Maybe there are no mistakes
Maybe we don’t know
What we’re looking at
The ever pressing question takes a toll
If you were right
What makes it different
If you were wrong
Would you know the difference
Difference
Why try and fight
All of this missing
Hope I get it right
Before the ending
Ending
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Silver Bracelet
Silver bracelet in my cup
Holder marks like bread crumbs on your trail line
And the pictures on the fridge
From the booth in Tennessee that one time
When I was in love and you were in love with me also
Holding my hand
Kissing my mouth like you wanted to
Back before the money took its toll
Back before the rhythm lost its soul
Back before I made up my mind to go
And the house we shared together
Little pink up Cripple Creek she sent me
Through the times of joy and plenty
Just as well the times of crippling doubt
What I didn’t know is
Not knowing shows where your heart is
Not but it’s not like I could’ve just stopped ‘cause I felt so
Back before we worked it to the bone
Back before we really should have known
Back before I made up my mind to go
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I Need A Woman
Candy box hotel in Europe
Found a couple hours on my own
I should be going out but I can’t do it
Lately I just need some time alone
Hope I grow up to be a winner
Hope that I someday understand
The space between the man and the mirror
I’ve been trying but I don’t think I can
I need a woman
To hold my hand
To make me feel
More like a man
I need a woman
It’s sad but true
I need a woman
You can build yourself a heart like a basement
Trust me that is easier to do
And then that fire comes it’s safer I admit it
Block out all the light that makes it true
Oh but your start to lose your vision
Huddled in the dark behind the door
And when you feel that chill come cold and bitter
You remember what that fire was for
I need a woman
To hold my hand
To make me feel
More like a man
I need a woman
It’s sad but true
I need a woman
I need a woman
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Jealous Love
I don't want no jealous love
Honey I've had enough of it
All my life, bringing me down
I don't want no heartless ruck
Honey, getting stuck
Having so many words
But nothing left to sing
I want it better than I've ever had
I want it better then
So give me the good times
Give me the bad
I want it better than I've ever had
I don't want to be a crutch
Honey, you take too much
From me, or you for me
I will never be your shining knight
Honey, your Mr Right
But I would do all I can to be your man
I want it better than I've ever had
I want it better then
So give me the good times
Give me the bad
I want it better than I've ever had
Don't want your sympathy
Just want your honesty
Will you honestly want me?
I'll call you every night
I will try to find a little more good in me
To give to you
I want it better than I've ever had
I want it better then
So give me the good times
Give me the bad
I want it better than I've ever had
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Empty From The Start
Stars falling from the sky
Buildings burning all the time
Tall rivers running wild
Stretching out for miles and miles
I think I heard a good man say
God is love and love has made us
But have you seen the news today
I have and I think God is gone away
If he was ever there anyway
‘Cause anyone who tells you they were born good is lying
We’re just born and we are dying
And I know it’s been said but mothers be good to your daughters
And then they’re older sons be good to your fathers
This is all we have
This is all we are
Blood and bones no Holy Ghost
Empty from the start
There’s nothing you can do honey
Nothing you can do that would save me
There’s nothing you can do honey
Nothing you can do but lately
I don’t mind
‘Cause I’ve been finding
The only thing worth loving more than me is loving you
You get stuck staring at the past
You get stuck looking at the future through a looking glass
Time is gone when time was slow
This time is all you have and now it’s gone but now you know
And I hope you save
A picture of me in your pocket when I’m gone away
And I will do the same for you
To truly love someone is the closest I have come to truth
This is all we have
This is all we are
Blood and bones no Holy Ghost
Empty from the start
There’s nothing you can do honey
Nothing you can do that would save me
There’s nothing you can do honey
Nothing you can do but lately
I don’t mind
‘Cause I’ve been finding
The only thing worth loving more than me is loving you
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Blossom
Forego your hope
Save it from the ashes
Of the will you wrote
Everything passes away
Hold out for what you thought you were making
Just long enough to realize you’re going the wrong way
Oh you hold my heart forever
But I can’t hold onto what’s not there
May you blossom like a flower
May you go dancing in the air
Give up
Give back all that was taken
Return
Relax
This feeling is not here to stay
Oh you hold my heart forever
But I can’t hold onto what’s not there
May you blossom like a flower
May you go dancing in the air
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Topless Dancer
If you lived in the shadow of the mountain
Would you notice when the mountain was gone
If you played in the sparkling fountain
Would the drought seem twice as long
If at night you slept with strangers in their houses
And in the morning sang a traveling song
Would you feel a little bit stronger when they were gone
She sang to me the rhythm of autumn
It was there that I found my space
In the search for the perfect Madonna
To bear the burden of amazing grace
I found her as a topless dancer
Making a mess of the place
She too no questions and she gave no answers
She just sang
Hold tight
Don’t leave the light on for me
Because I just might
But myself loose and go free
I hope you see the topless dancer in me
I learned to ask the Lord for forgiveness
Before I learned to forgive myself
So I wore myself thin as a window
And hung my trophies from a shelf
When I woke up in the morning from a good good dream
I felt the burden of unspeakable guilt
I washed the milky white stain from my bed sheets
And I prayed for help
So to the priests and the prophets
Who say our bodies are godless
Oh tell me what the hell does that mean
I hope you see
I hope you see
I hope you see the topless dancer in me
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Heartbreaker
Settle down, head against the window
counting hours by the handful of plastic bottle shots
coming home, sleeping in my own bed
waking up to the silence
I’m no good at this at all
I need a good distraction, honey if you could come by
and hold me like you want me, like that would make me happy,
like that would take the pain away if only for a while
and maybe in the morning, leave without a warning
just a note on the pillowcase that says “I never wanted more”
Cuddle up, wrap your arms around me
don’t lace it up with sympathy
it’s just easy if you’re sleeping
soon enough I’ll be leaving here tomorrow,
and all the pain and the sorrow makes it easier to go
I need a good distraction, honey if you could come by
and hold me like you want me, like that would make me happy,
like that would take the pain away if only for a while
and maybe in the morning, leave without a warning
just a note on the pillowcase that says “I never wanted more”
oh, heartbreaker, name-taker, ladies man,
oh, heartbreaker, name-taker, heartbreaker, ladies man, oh
