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Ghosts
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Ghosts - From the CD Ghosts by Marty Murray 2005
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Solo acoustic folk rock, singer-songwriter, in the Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Jim Croce style.
I'm a singer/songwriter from the Niagara region who has been playing the bars and clubs of this area for over 30 years. I did some band work in the past, and that was a lot of fun, but for the past ten years or so I've just gone back to using my trusty 12-string and my voice. In the spring of 2005 I finally finished recording my debut album, Ghosts, and so far the reaction to it has been incredibly positive. I wanted to keep it simple and straightforward, like the early records of my musical hero, Gordon Lightfoot, and I was really pleased with how everything turned out. I hope to start work on the next album in the coming year, which like my current one will contain a mixture of old and new songs, but will hopefully be a bit sunnier in tone. I still enjoy performing a great deal - it's still one of the favourite things in my life.
Song Info
Charts
Peak #187
Peak in subgenre #49
Author
Martin Murray
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Martin Murray
Uploaded
February 01, 2006
Track Files
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MP3 4.6 MB 128 kbps 4:59
Story behind the song
This is a song about the emotional fallout of bad relationships, whether it be from abuse, addictions, unfaithfulness or simple deceit. The ghosts of horrible things that have been done to us, of what we’ve had to live through and endure, carry on for our entire lives and are far more frightening than any disembodied spirits that I’ve ever encountered. Once more Jay Reed came up with a remarkable guitar part for this song that perfectly complimented what I was playing, and really made the tune work.
Lyrics
Ghosts (Lyrics by Marty Murray) We've got ghosts, you and I People and places we'd rather leave behind And we've got ghosts in our minds Haunting our memories each time we close our eyes She wants to be a good wife She works so hard, she tries to do it right But when the bottle's in his hand The anger rises and he's another man We've got ghosts, you and I...... She tells him he is her man The love of her life she says They have so many plans But there's another on her mind He doesn't love her Oh why is she so blind? We've got ghosts, you and I.... So many wasted years gone by You think you've found love You find out it's a lie You pay the price in the end Just let the sleep come Oh Lord don't take me back there again Is it so hard to say goodbye? So easy to hurt someone, so easy to lie She tells him everything's alright She steals his car keys and she's off into the night We've got ghosts, you and I.....
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Robert Moss
Jul 13, 2009
Right in the pocket!