Ghost
View chords used in this chart
D/F# G G/B (repeating, fading in)
{intro}
D/F# G G/B
There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer
D/F# G G/B
The last truce we ever came to from our adolescent war
D/F# G G/B
And I start to feel the fever from the warm air through the screen
D/F# G G6/B G6/B D9/F# G6
You come regular like seasons, shadowing my dreams
D9/F# G6 G6/B
The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota
D9/F# G6 G6/B
At a place that you could walk across with five steps down
D9/F# G6 G6/B
And I guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart
D9/F# G6
But at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown
D D#º Em7 A7sus - A7
And there's not enough room in this world for my pain
D D/C# Bm7 Bm7
Signals cross and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain
D D#º Em7 A7sus - A7
Of all my demon spirits I need you the most
G6/B D9/F# G6
I'm in love with your ghost
G6/B D9/F# G6
I'm in love with your ghost
Dark and dangerous like a secret that gets whispered in a hush
When I wake the things I dreamt about you last night make me blush
When you kiss me like a lover, then you sting me like a viper
I go follow to the river, play your memory like the piper
And I feel it like a sickness, how this love is killing me
But I'd walk into the fingers of your fire willingly
And dance the edge of sanity, I've never been this close
G6/B D9/F# G6
In love with your ghost
G6/B D9/F# G6
Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo
G6/B D9/F# G6
Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo
Em7 Em7 A7sus A7
Unknowing captor, you'll never know how much you
D D/C# F#7sus4 F#7
Pierced my spirit, but I can't touch you
Bm Bm/A E7/G# G
Can you hear it, a cry to be free
B7 B7 Em E Am C D D/C G/B D
I'm forever under lock and key as you pass through me
Now I see your face before me, I would launch a thousand ships
To bring your heart back to my island as the sand beneath me slips
As I burn up in your presence, and I know now how it feels
To be weakened like Achilles, with you always at my heels
And my bitter pill to swallow is the silence that I keep
It poisons me, I can't swim free, the river is too deep
Though I'm baptized by your touch, I am no worse at most
G6/B D9/F# G6
In love with your ghost
G6/B D9/F# G6
In love with your ghost (shadowing my dreams)
G6/B D9/F# G6
In love with your ghost (ooooooooh)
G6/B D9/F# G6
In love with your ghost (ooooooooh)
G/B D/F# G
{instrumental: repeat and fade}
Notes on some chords:
* If you don't want to play D#º (xx1212), play B7/D# (xx1202) instead;
it doesn't sound much different.
* I think the Girls play F#11 (244300) where I've written F#7sus4 & F#7
(x44420 & x44320), and some god-awful G#m and Gmaj7 chords where I wrote
E7 & G. Do whatever you think works best for you.
* In the chorus, try playing the second half of D and D#º (or B7/D#) with
the third fret on the high E string. It matches the vocals that way.
TAB:
The picking pattern for the intro, first verse, and outro goes like this
(note the continuous D note on the third fret of the B string):
D/F# G G/B
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B ------3-------3-------3-------3-|------3-------3-------3-------3-|
G --2-------2-------0-------0-----|--0-------0-------0-------0-----|
D ----0-------0-------0-------0---|----2-------2-------0-------0---|
A --------------------------------|3-------3-------2-------2-------|
E 2-------2-------3-------3-------|--------------------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
For the rest of the song, where it goes D9/F# G6 G6/B, it's a
little trickier (HINT: the thumb handles all the notes on the E, A, and
D strings):
D9/F# G6 G6/B
E ------0---------------0---------|------0---------------0---------|
B ----------3---------------3-----|----------3---------------3-----|
G --2-----------2---0-----------0-|--0-----------0---0-----------0-|
D ----0-------0-------0-------0---|----2-------2-------0-------0---|
A --------------------------------|3-------3-------2-------2-------|
E 2-------2-------3-------3-------|--------------------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
And then there's this little fill in the intro and outro:
D/F# G G/B
E --------------------------------|3-----2-----3-------------------|
B ----------3-----1-----0---------|----------------3---------------|
G ------0-------------------------|--------------------------------|
D 2/4-------------2-----0---------|--------------------------------|
A --------------------------------|3---------------2---------------|
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com
How to play Ghost
Use the controls above to change the key and text size. Follow the highlighted chords while listening, then practice each section slowly before playing at the original tempo.
What is the starting chord?
The first identified chord is D/F#. You can transpose without leaving the page.
Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
Yes. The chord progression works on acoustic guitar, electric guitar and keyboard. Adapt the voicings to your instrument and level.