Ghost story lyrics

I watch the Western sky

the sun is sinking, the geese are flying South

it sets me thinking: I did not miss you much,

I did not suffer,

what did not kill me just made me tougher

I feel the winter come, his icy sinews

Now in the fire light the case continues

Another night in court, the same old trial

the same old questions asked, the same denial

The shadows close me round like jury members

I look for answers in the fire's embers

What was I missing then that old december?

I give my usual line: I don't remember

Another winter comes, his icy fingers creep

into these bones of mine, these memories never sleep

and all these differences, a cloak I borrow

we kept our distances, why should it follow

I must have loved you

What is the force that binds the stars

I wore this mask to hide my scars

what is the power that pulls the tide

I never could find a place to hide

What moves the Earth around the sun

what could I do but run and run and run

Afraid to love afraid to fail

A mast without a sail

The moon's a fingernail and slowly sinking

Another day begins and now I'm thinking

that this indifference was my invention

when everything I did sought your attention

You were my compass star, you were my measure

you were a pirate's map, a buried treasure

If this was all correct the last thing I'd expect

The prosecution rests, it's time that I confess

I must have loved you

I must have loved you