Lyrics: Levi Stoker
Music: Levi Stoker
I look in the mirror and I don't know the face
Just a hollowed out shadow of a different place
I used to have mercy
I used to have grace
Before the world turned into a cold blooded chase
The kindness I carry
Got buried in line
Under the weight of the work and the hard hitting turn
I'm wearing the scars of the bridges I burned
Holding on to the lessons I wish I'd never learned
But I'm hauling the ghost of a good man around
Across the high desert and the hard frozen ground
He's heavy on my shoulders
He's a chain on my soul
Trying to find water in a dry rotted hole
Yeah the devil may claim me
But he's gotta wait his turn
I'm the last bit of wick that refuses to burn
Still walking still breathing
Doing all that I can
Carrying the ghost of a good man
The law calls it just ice
The brain calls it debt
But the hunger in my belly is the sharpest thing
That slept in the ditches that fought in the rain
Trying to remember my own questioning
They tried to erase me to beat me to dust
But there's something in the bone
That's stronger than rust
I might be a sinner with blood on my shirt
But I'm still the one digging the truth from the dirt
And I wanna go of a good man around
Across the high desert and the hard
Frozen ground
He's heavy on my shoulders
He's a chain on my soul
Trying to find water in a dry rabbit hole
Yeah the devil may claim me
But he's gotta wait his turn
I'm the last bit of wick that refuses to burn
Still walking still breathing
Doing all that I can
Carrying the ghost of a good man
She's screaming from the inside
Telling me to rise
I ain't dead yet
Look into my eyes
I'm still the man
Yeah I'm haunting the ghost of a good man
Around
Across the high desert and the hard
Frozen ground
Moves heavy on my shoulders
Eases a chain on my soul
I'm trying to find water in a dry rowdy hole
Yeah the devil may tame me
But he's got a way this time
I'm the last bit of wick that refuses to burn
Still walking
Still breathing
Doing all that I can
Carrying the ghost of a good man
Don't let him die
Keep on walking
The ghost of a man