I'm just walkin' down Avenue 35

I'm just walkin' round wonderin' why I'm alive

Yesterday came thunderin' down like a .45

Now there's a torn mirage and my face is twisted

But I won't cry.

 

I thought that I could see

But I was blind.

 

I don't want to live inside a dream

Open up the window, let the breeze wash over me

A fallen rose is trampled at my feet

Deep at night the ghost of love is haunting me.

 

I got a hole in my boot

and my fist is grippin' scraps of time

I see a face in the window of a broken car

and it looks like mine

Now my pockets are empty

and I'm thankin' God that I'm still alive

Dusty feet kickin' sidewalks of broken dreams

that used to shine.

 

Don't you look at me that way

I must dry these tears away

Your twisted words

Can't fool me anymore.

Ghost of Love