The Shell

Album: Historian (2018)
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  • I'm a ghost
    Walking in a boring dream
    You are there
    Talking and I'm not listening
    I am busy doing nothing
    And you're rudely interrupting

    It's a myth and now I see it clearly
    You don't have to be sad to make something worth hearing
    Now I'm calm and I'm content
    One more burden off my back

    You don't wanna be a creator
    Doesn't mean you've got nothing to say
    Put down the pen, don't let it force your hand

    I'm a ghost
    Walking on an empty street
    No name anymore
    No need to call for me
    I'm a long-lost hometown hero
    Late to legendary past lives within me

    If I had the offer to do it again
    Make me invincible, invisible, or brain dead
    If the body and the life were two things that we could divide
    I'd deliver up my shell to be filled with somebody else

    You don't wanna be a creator
    Doesn't mean you've got nothing to say
    Put down the pen, don't let it force your hand

    You don't wanna be a leader
    Doesn't mean you don't know the way
    Hold your own hand, walk on without a plan Writer/s: Lucy Dacus
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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