Hungry Ghost

Your ghost is a hungry memory Haunts me wherever I go I know him all too well He's been here all along And now you're gone I see that I didn't know what longing was I didn't know what it meant to miss someone Didn't know how the heart could ache But I'll keep trying to love this hungry ghost You won't look me in the eye But I could watch you all year You'll be looking far away To some place I'll never go While your ghost haunts my vision Just like a dream I can't wake up from Always somewhere at the edge of sight Speaking loudest in the dead of night Hungry But I'll keep fighting to love this hungry ghost And somewhere I am told, you are alive and well Not a ghost in sight But how do you manage to haunt my waking days Haunt my bed at night Your song Tears me down, moves me along And I am left here on my own Those devastation blues setting in And I would love you if you'd let me Yes I would sing you to sleep each night I'd put only good things in your sight Let you be and hold you tight But I know I'm better off alone Cause it's no one can love a hungry ghost