Donna Martin: Listen

Ghost

(Donna Martin)

I'm living up with a ghost in a steel high rise

guess she made the news

when the first couple tenants passed right through

she turned the locks on the door

the day that I stepped in and I said

listen here baby, you just can't win

cause I've come in off the street

and it's a hell of a world out there

and I think that's got you beat

every hour on the hour she breaks the glass

and then slams the door

but it's hard to hear it in this city

on the thirteenth floor

must be a hell of a job when you're trying to terrify

with an old bag of tricks rattling the pipes bone dry

cause there's a factory up the street

you can't drink the water anyway

and I think that's got you beat

I'm catching the moon through the street light glare

tracing the skyline back to where

a walk through the walls in the middle of the night

could look so wrong in a world so right

there's an old black and white in the new town hall

of the first paved road

I wonder if that's you by the A frame

where this high rise goes

you must have taken this city on like rolling thunder

back in the day, the simple days of wonder

now it's a six lane street

and it's a hell of a world out there

I think that's got you beat