Everybody’s Got A Ghost
I know a man who never sleeps
He keeps old numbers by his bed
Says every promise that he broke
Still comes back and counts his debts
I know a woman down in Memphis
Still won't say my name out loud
Funny how the years get longer
When you lose somebody proud
I've made peace
with some of mine
Some still knock from time to time
Everybody's got a ghost
Something they don't talk about
A name that catches in your throat When the room gets quiet
down
You can change the locks and leave
You can swear you're finally free
But everybody's got a ghost
And mine still walks with me
I had a brother
who could hear me
Before I ever said a word
We could turn a two-lane highway
Into somewhere we'd never heard
He took the long way out of Georgia
I took the road that paid the bills
Funny thing about those choices
They can follow you for miles
I don't blame him anymore
But I still wonder what for
Everybody's got a ghost
Something they don't talk about
A name that catches in your throat When the room gets quiet
down
You can change the locks and leave
You can swear you're finally free
But everybody's got a ghost
And mine still walks with me
So here's to every photograph
That somebody couldn't throw away
Here's to every empty chair
That still remembers someone's weight
I've got no sermon for the living
I've got no answer for the dead
Just a little more forgiveness
For the things I haven't said
Everybody's got a ghost
Something they don't talk about
A name that catches in your throat When the room gets quiet
down
You can change the locks and leave
You can swear you're finally free
But everybody's got a ghost…
Yeah…
And mine still walks with me.