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#?        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#?     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#? (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#? (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