Ghost

D/F#  G    G/B  (repeating, fading in) 
{intro} 
 
          D/F#          G                        G/B 
There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer 
           D/F#         G                       G/B 
The last truce we ever came to from our adolescent war 
        D/F#             G                                 G/B 
And I start to feel the fever from the warm air through the screen 
         D/F#           G               G6/B      G6/B  D9/F#  G6 
You come regular like seasons, shadowing my dreams 
 
    D9/F#        G6                       G6/B 
The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota 
       D9/F#             G6                          G6/B 
At a place that you could walk across with five steps down 
      D9/F#                   G6                       G6/B 
And I guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart 
             D9/F#                G6                        
But at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown 
 
            D          D#º        Em7          A7sus - A7 
And there's not enough room in this world for my pain 
D                  D/C#               Bm7                   Bm7 
Signals cross and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain 
   D            D#º     Em7           A7sus - A7 
Of all my demon spirits I need you the most 
      G6/B            D9/F#  G6 
  I'm in love with your ghost 
           G6/B        D9/F#  G6 
  I'm in love with your ghost 
 
Dark and dangerous like a secret that gets whispered in a hush 
When I wake the things I dreamt about you last night make me blush 
When you kiss me like a lover, then you sting me like a viper 
I go follow to the river, play your memory like the piper 
 
And I feel it like a sickness, how this love is killing me 
But I'd walk into the fingers of your fire willingly 
And dance the edge of sanity, I've never been this close 
        G6/B       D9/F#   G6 
   In love with your ghost 
  
              G6/B        D9/F#  G6 
Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo 
              G6/B        D9/F#  G6 
Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo 
 
          Em7            Em7            A7sus     A7 
Unknowing captor, you'll never know how much you 
           D      D/C#         F#7sus4    F#7 
Pierced my spirit, but I can't touch you 
             Bm    Bm/A        E7/G#   G 
Can you hear it, a cry to be free 
B7       B7         Em          E   Am   C      D      D/C   G/B   D 
  I'm forever under lock and key as you pass through me 
 
Now I see your face before me, I would launch a thousand ships 
To bring your heart back to my island as the sand beneath me slips 
As I burn up in your presence, and I know now how it feels 
To be weakened like Achilles, with you always at my heels 
 
And my bitter pill to swallow is the silence that I keep 
It poisons me, I can't swim free, the river is too deep 
Though I'm baptized by your touch, I am no worse at most 
     G6/B       D9/F#   G6 
In love with your ghost 
     G6/B       D9/F#              G6 
In love with your ghost  (shadowing my dreams) 
     G6/B       D9/F#    G6 
In love with your ghost  (ooooooooh) 
     G6/B       D9/F#     G6 
In love with your ghost  (ooooooooh) 
  
   G/B   D/F#   G 
{instrumental: repeat and fade} 
 
 
Notes on some chords: 
* If you don't want to play D#º (xx1212), play B7/D# (xx1202) instead; 
it doesn't sound much different. 
* I think the Girls play F#11 (244300) where I've written F#7sus4 & F#7 
(x44420 & x44320), and some god-awful G#m and Gmaj7 chords where I wrote 
E7 & G.  Do whatever you think works best for you. 
* In the chorus, try playing the second half of D and D#º (or B7/D#) with 
the third fret on the high E string.  It matches the vocals that way. 
 
 
TAB: 
 
The picking pattern for the intro, first verse, and outro goes like this 
(note the continuous D note on the third fret of the B string): 
 
  D/F#            G                            G/B 
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------| 
B ------3-------3-------3-------3-|------3-------3-------3-------3-| 
G --2-------2-------0-------0-----|--0-------0-------0-------0-----| 
D ----0-------0-------0-------0---|----2-------2-------0-------0---| 
A --------------------------------|3-------3-------2-------2-------| 
E 2-------2-------3-------3-------|--------------------------------| 
  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .    
 
 
For the rest of the song, where it goes D9/F# G6  G6/B,   it's a 
little trickier (HINT: the thumb handles all the notes on the E, A,   and 
D strings): 
 
  D9/F#         G6                           G6/B 
E ------0---------------0---------|------0---------------0---------| 
B ----------3---------------3-----|----------3---------------3-----| 
G --2-----------2---0-----------0-|--0-----------0---0-----------0-| 
D ----0-------0-------0-------0---|----2-------2-------0-------0---| 
A --------------------------------|3-------3-------2-------2-------| 
E 2-------2-------3-------3-------|--------------------------------| 
  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .    
 
 
And then there's this little fill in the intro and outro: 
 
  D/F#            G                            G/B 
E --------------------------------|3-----2-----3-------------------| 
B ----------3-----1-----0---------|----------------3---------------| 
G ------0-------------------------|--------------------------------| 
D 2/4-------------2-----0---------|--------------------------------| 
A --------------------------------|3---------------2---------------| 
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------| 
  ^   .   ^   .   ^   .   ^   .    ^   .   ^   .   ^   .   ^   . 
 
 
- Adam Schneider, [email protected]