Lyrics

All around me I see ghosts Hanging out on balconies mostly Laughing at the mortals Like we're the brunt of an inside joke Sweet revenge that we can touch friends and family I see ghosts all around me Crash rock concerts and the symphony Dress in ebony like wayward funeral hosts [Chorus] They don't speak to me It's like they see straight through me And they know all that's to come And what is done And what frightens me Is not their fearsome company It's the future that is prescribed to me I will not ask them why they've come Margaret Putnam was a nurse In the civil war she served her country She walks in through my walls Like an actress well rehearsed She'd be more frightening If she were less less lovely [Chorus] She won't speak to me It's like she sees straight through me And she knows all that's to come And what is done And what frightens me Is not her fearsome company It's the future that is prescribed to me I will not ask her why she's come I see ghosts all around me Sleep through lectures in theology They don't make apologies For the secrets that they know Like to appear on unsolved mysteries [Chorus] They don't speak to me It's like they see straight through me And they know all that's to come And what is done And what frightens me Is not their fearsome company It's the future that is prescribed to me I will not ask them why they've come