On a misbegotten, moonless night

I stumbled in my door


Disgusted with my circumstance


Soaked to every pore

When floating from my bedroom


Came a moaning and a sigh


?Oh, I've had one too many

It's just the wind,? says I





I lit up a cigarette

And I poured a good, stiff drink


You see, I needed to compose myself


I needed time to think

No sooner had I settled down


The moaning came again


Drifting through the silence

Like some otherworldly violin





I bounded up the staircase

I went slippin' and slidin' down the hall


You know, I've been around the whole, wide world


But I was not prepared at all

Uninvited visitor, unsuspecting host


?Well, I see you've made yourself at home.


Good evening, Miss Ghost.?




You're more beautiful than ever


I feel just like a kid

And I commence to trembling


When I think of all the things we did


Skin as pale as marble; lips as red as blood

Imagine my surprise, my dear


I thought that you were gone for good




You look so lovely lying there


All stretched out on your back


But I'm the one who's strung up here

On old temptation's rusty rack


And in the wee small hours

Is when I miss you the most


And I confess it, I have missed you

Miss Ghost




I threw open the window

And I howled at the rain


And I cursed the weakness of the flesh

This breath and bone?and this brute, reptilian brain




What dirty tricks the mind can play

In the lonely dead of night

When you bump into the shadow


Of a faded love that wasn't right



Way down beneath the surface


Far beyond the light of day

So many things lie buried deep

And baby, they should stay that way




Oh, my wicked, little habit

We've really made a mess

Everything's been trivialized


In our vain pursuit of happiness



And even though you've come for me

I won't go back with you


To some temporary heaven

Down some empty, dead-end avenue

But it's been so good to have you here


And I propose a toast

?Here's to seeing through you?

Miss Ghost.?