Mary at home, as always, was ironing a pale shirt of a ghost
Trying to straighten out every crease of his being and the emptiness where she
was lost

Ten minutes before she had her man drying in the summer's breeze
Their love had been helped by a little red peg but it was just a moment seized


'Cause he flew away
On a memory where most
People fade away

But now she's left with the shirt of a ghost
Yeah she's left with the shirt of a ghost


Ten minutes before he ran away to a stranger's hands and feet
And as it turned she saw them play among the soap, water and heat.


'Cause he flew away
On a memory where most
Lovers just fade away

And she's left with the shirt of a ghost
Yeah she's left with the shirt of a ghost


Ten minutes before the shirt was stained in anger and greed
And it smelled of revenge from a broken heart and the shirt his body no longer
did need


'Cause he flew away
On a memory where most

Bodies just fade away
But she's left with the shirt of a ghost
Yeah she's left with the shirt of a ghost


'Cause he flew away
On a memory where most

Lovers just fade away
But she's left with the shirt of a ghost
Yeah she's left with the shirt of a ghost

She's left with the shirt of a ghost