Ghost

23 hours ago by @rubberbandage

Ghost

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Liner Notes

Hi all, I have been in bad shape emotionally since the 5th, and then terrible shape emotionally since the 12th, and I lost every bit of motivation and inspiration in that time. I ended up going all the way back to a draft of something from December ’23, intending to at least get that #finished, but I’m left thoroughly unhappy with the arrangement. Still, putting it out there to at least have something.

This is about how exes in life (whether lovers or friends) don’t owe you reconnection or a chance to explain things later on, no matter what. So it’s intellectually knowing that, and still feeling hurt about it.

Lyrics

I see your face staring back at me
straight from the past
You look the same
like you’re not a day older
since I saw you last

I want to say
I never stopped thinking of you
and I have changed
we’ve got more now in common
than both of us knew

And you don’t owe me
a reply or a single call
and you don’t know me
maybe you never did at all

I heard this song
and thought I would send it to you
I hope you’ll laugh
and then you will tell me
that you liked it too

it’s been a while
and both of our lives are complex
but now it’s fall
and I’m still checking messages
hoping yours will be next

and you don’t owe me
for a fling when we both were kids
you don’t have to love me
I don’t know if you ever did

but would it kill you to reply
you’re alive, not dead
and would it kill to
reconnect like a friend instead

No you don’t need to
say a word leaving me on read
I thought you might care still
but that only was in my head

and you don’t owe me
though it’s you that I think of most
Thought I saw your face but
I guess I only saw a ghost

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