Haunted

The thing about songwriting is that your characters sometimes run away from you.

"What do you mean you're going to do that?"

"It's what I have to do. You wrote the beginning. I'll write the ending."

And then you end up crying for the poor damned bastard and your wife looks at you funny. (Actually, she doesn't. But she's known me for a long time...)

Obviously, I need to write about less sympathetic protagonists...

  Cmaj7                      D6
A voice in the wind whispers gently,
Em                         Fmaj7
Speaking of things I don't dare,
  G/D                     Am
Repeating the promise you sent me
    Bm7                       Cmaj7
And swearing you'll always be there.
          D9       C9
You'll be there.
     G
Everywhere.

And I beg you to grant me one answer
To just how this all came to be.
The wind swirls the leaves like a dancer
And shadows are all I can see.
Shadows of you and of me.
I can see.

	    D                          C
	You said that you loved me and never would go
	      D                            C       G
	And I thought that our love had forever to grow.
	    Dm7        Dm7/C       G7/B
	But death is a bastard and takes who he will
	    Dm7            Dm7/C             G7/B
	And with your last breath, you swore you'd love me still.

I hear your voice whisper by moonlight
And when I awake at the dawn.
I reach out to you holding you tight,
But when I close my arms, you are gone.
You are gone.
Then you're gone.

And if I found I had the power
To tell you to go or to stay,
Stop haunting my dreams for an hour,
I don't know just what I would say.
I would say
Anyway.

	They say that I'm crazy and I might agree
	And no one else hears what you're saying to me
	And if I should stand on the edge of a hill
	And take one last step, I could be with you still.

A voice in the wind whispers gently,
Speaking of things I don't dare,
Repeating the promise you sent me
And swearing you'll always be there.
You'll be there.
You'll be there.
Everywhere.