Edwin McCain Lyrics

Album: Messenger

Ghosts Of Jackson Square Lyrics

Ghost on the street today

 Doorways of Jackson Square 

 In tinsel and tap shoes 

 Mardi Gras beads in her hair 

 Down to the graveyard 

 She wrung out her hands 

 As if he will meet her 

 All day she stands 

 So don't leave me 

 And I know you're justified 

 So don't leave me 

 'Cause a part of you in me died 

 We wish ourselves beautiful 

 We cry in the night 

 And it's not the love you feared 

 But the fall from the height 

 My personal ledges 

 Afraid to look down 

 My crepe paper bridges 

 Enough water to drown 

 

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 And I see the lonely souls 

 Searchin' 

 But before the heartbreak rose 

 Draw the curtain 

 

 I'm a ghost on the streets today 

 Surrounded by eyes 

 I feel them peer through me 

 And my harlequin disguise

 If it makes you feel better 

 Come join me the while

 And there's love in these open arms 

 Some love in my spirits' smiles

 

 [Chorus]