Future Islands - Give Me the Ghost Back Lyrics

I'm just an animal that strains against my line
I push and pull the cord, to make me feel alive
I had to fight to wrest the reins back on my life
Here come the stars again
Here come those scars again

How quickly we become the things that we despise
I talked her out of it, another lost the child
So many questions, stalking through me, day and night
Give me the ghost back
Give me the ghost back

What goes when I relinquish sin?
What's that beating in?
What goes when I face who I've been?
It's that old grief again

Oh, terror is a long dark night
Half-awake with the ones who died, the ones who tried
To say goodbye to that cold white light
Face to face but we have to try
To face the night

Two hundred million feel they're underneath a knife
A million others, can't forget what we can't hide
Saw one friend overdose, another took his life
Give me the ghost back
Give me my ghost back

Terror is a long sharp knife
Regret and fear have an appetite, appetite
So say goodbye to that old white knight
No fairytale ending for my night
Just death and life

Say goodbye to that cold white light, goodbye
Say goodbye to that cold white light
Goodbye, to the ones who tried to face the night

Here come the stars again
Here come the stars again