Ghost Town

track name: Ghost Town
album and band name: from Odds & Ends by Our Twilight Pastime

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about: Ghost Town is another song I love that I sadly took off Drunken Sailors. I'm still unsure of my decision. Initially, this was supposed to be track 3, but Buried Away took its spot.

I really like the way Ghost Town was recorded, and I still do like the lyrics. I enjoyed writing a song about how I'd write a love song if I were in love and came up with this melody. It was an interesting bit of meta-songwriting.

As the song says, it's really not in standard tuning. I actually have forgotten what tuning the song is actually in, and therefore can never play it live. Although one day I want to relearn it...because I like it!
lyrics: I'm playing these chords in my room
and they sound so delicate.
They bring to mind that feeling
of falling in love again.
But you know that I
really haven't found it yet.
So I'm choking on words to put to this song,
just waiting to breathe you in.

Well, it's not in standard tuning,
but I think I'll make the words rhyme.
And if you were here, I'd sing out
the best analogy that I could find
to portray how you would make me feel
whenever you're around:
that overjoyed feeling
that you like living in my ghost town.

Sometimes without you I feel like
a punctured beanbag chair:
with my insides pouring out
from this hole that I can't repair.
Like I've been thrown in the attic
and left as a souvenir.
So that when you miss this novelty,
you can just come right up here.

Well, I'm next to all those dolls you kept
from when you were a kid.
And that picture that you drew your mom
back on Mother's Day when you were six.
And she loved it so much that for years
she kept it on the fridge.
Until you were embarrassed, and asked her to put it away.
Just like you'd say to me about this.
Just like you'd say to me about this song.

And maybe I would listen.
Or maybe we'd argue at night
about how this was a gift to you,
and how you've made me feel alright
about all those other moments
that I only saw myself ahead
as some lonely aging man
who only holds on to senescence.

But anyone that's just listening in,
I don't want you feeling bad.
Because, in reality it's me.
I'm the only problem I've ever had.
It's just me,
so someone please just adjust me.
Won't someone please
adjust me.
credits: from Odds & Ends, track released 01 September 2006
Written and Performed by Mike Goldense
license: All rights reserved
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