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Artist: John Cale
Canonical path: /john-cale/ghost-story
Related lyric paths: 6
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Ghost Story
Read Ghost Story lyrics by John Cale on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Ghost Story
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It was seven o’clock in the morning
Too late to handle the day
At home it was only two thirty
The skin on my wrists turning grey
Stood up, wished us good luck
He changed his attitudes twice
The box in the corner shivered in fear
He was tired and hungry for days.
The next year she bought a new stomach
From liverpool made in detroit
Constantly passing old matches
Some sentries and millionaires
Who did? gallagher did
The same old thing every time
Gave up, more empty cups
They were tired and hungry for nights.
It made life a littl e easier
To have holland on the run
It didn’t take that long to forget her
My old man and his gun
Rushed out, lions about
Wasting away on advice
A hundred and three, 400 or more
It’ll haunt you for the rest of your life
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