Swing,
swing, gallows swing,
from anger back to sorrow
Morning gets when midnight brings
and I'll be dead tomorrow
Just another ghost
My wife left me last wintertime
to join another man
I lost her love forever
and I lost my mind right then
But when I tried but couldn't picture
her sweet face inside my head
I could only see her lover's grin,
it's true, I killed him dead
I've always been an honest man,
as crystal as the sea
I've always said when
I've done wrong,
and I've said wrong's done me
So listen to my warning,
though I know it might sound strange
To those who cast condoning eyes
upon me when I hang
Let me tell you what I've learned,
what my guilty mind has seen
Of life and then of death
and then how ghosts get
stuck between
There's no slammin' doors,
no rattlin' chains,
no long black veils at night
But you'd wish there was, cause then
you might could die and put things
right
Ghosts have got no bodies left
Ghosts have got no will
Etchings on your conscience
by the hands that had them killed
The world it all looks yellow now,
and every breath turns foul
The water tastes like rancid oil,
and the mockingbird's just howl
You can never touch someone you love,
it'll burn them if you try
The face inside the mirror
stares back with goldfish bulbs for eyes
The only dream you ever have
is of lying there awake
It never rains upon your head,
it spits into your face
It goes, it's haunted me
Man warned me then
Why God would I deserve it
a thousand times again?
Oh, listen, please,
to my final words,
before you bring yourself
to watch that final length of cord.
Ghosts don't die when
hands take hands,
ghosts are not bleased.
It's dust to dust and ash to ash
and beast in back to beast.
I hope your heart is large
and that there's room enough in you
for the ghost you choose to make of me
and the ghost that haunts me too
So swing, swing, gallows, swing
From anger back to sorrow
Hide your eyes and wash your wings
Cause I'll be dead tomorrow
Just another ghost,
just another ghost
Just another ghost,
just another ghost