Ghosts in Red Light (Version 2)

Verse

Rain on the sidewalk, steam off the plate

I was chasing a name that I could never recall

She moved to the window like smoke through glass

A cigarette burning slow and nothing's real at all

You said don't look back but that's what I do

Try to catch the ghosts that I couldn't hold onto

Pre-Chorus

So what's left of me when the neon fades?

Is it the way my shadow walks down this street?

Tell me is it just a ghost or something real that remains?

Is it you, is it him, or is it just my brain?

Chorus

Ghosts in red light, moving through my veins

Every face I see becomes your name

I'm lost in the haze of what could never be

But somehow these ghosts keep me free

Verse

Your laughter still ringing from a bar down the block

A photograph that you left on the dashboard rock

I try to move forward but your eyes stay with me

Like a shadow that follows wherever I go, you see

Every time I turn around there's something of you

In the way a stranger smiles or a streetlamp bends through

Pre-Chorus

So what's left of me when the neon fades?

Is it the way my shadow walks down this street?

Tell me is it just a ghost or something real that remains?

Is it you, is it him, or is it just my brain?

Chorus

Ghosts in red light, moving through my veins

Every face I see becomes your name

I'm lost in the haze of what could never be

But somehow these ghosts keep me free

Bridge

Maybe the only truth is that I don't know

If it's you or him but the feeling stays the same

So let it stay, let it haunt me slow

Cause when your name comes up in the smoke and the rain

I'm not running from it, I'm chasing it back to its place

In this city of shadows where nothing ever goes away

Your ghost is the one thing that makes my heart still work today

Chorus

Ghosts in red light, moving through my veins

Every face I see becomes your name

I'm lost in the haze of what could never be

But somehow these ghosts keep me free