The National

The National - Anyone's Ghost

You say you stayed home alone with the flu
Find out from friends that wasn t true
Go out at night with your headphones on again
And walk through the Manhattan valleys of the dead

Didn t want to be your ghost
Didn t want to be anyone s ghost
Didn t want to be your ghost
Didn t want to be anyone s ghost

But I don t want anybody else
I don t want anybody else

You said I came close as anyone s come
To live underwater for more than a month
You said it was night inside my heart, it was
You said it should tear a kid apart, it does

Didn t want to be your ghost
Didn t want to be anyone s ghost
Didn t want to be your ghost
Didn t want to be anyone s ghost

But I don t want anybody else
I don t want anybody else
I don t want anybody else
I don t want anybody else

I had a hole in the middle where the lightning went through
I told my friends not to worry
I had a hole in the middle, someone s sideshow to do
I told my friends not to worry

Didn t want to be your ghost
Didn t want to be anyone s ghost
Didn t want to be your ghost
Didn t want to be anyone s ghost