D5  G5    G5  (repeating, fading in) 
{intro} 
 

          D5          G5                        G5 
There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer 
           D5         G5                       G5 
The last truce we ever came to from our adolescent war 
        D5             G5                                 G5 
And I start to feel the fever from the warm air through the screen 
         D5           G5               G5      G5  D5  G5 
You come regular like seasons, shadowing my dreams 
 

    D5        G5                       G5 
The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota 
       D5             G5                          G5 
At a place that you could walk across with five steps down 
      D5                   G5                       G5 
And I guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart 
             D5                G5                        
But at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown 
 

            D5          D#5        E5          A5 - A5 
And there's not enough room in this world for my pain 
D5                  D5               B5                   B5 
Signals cross and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain 
   D5            D#5     E5           A5 - A5 
Of all my demon spirits I need you the most 
      G5            D5  G5 
  I'm in love with your ghost 
           G5        D5  G5 
  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 
        G5       D5   G5 
   In love with your ghost 
  

              G5        D5  G5 
Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo 
              G5        D5  G5 
Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo 
 

          E5            E5            A5     A5 
Unknowing captor, you'll never know how much you 
           D5      D5         F#5    F#5 
Pierced my spirit, but I can't touch you 
             B5    B5        E5   G5 
Can you hear it, a cry to be free 
B5       B5         E5          E5   A5   C5      D5      D5   G5   D5 
  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 
     G5       D5   G5 
In love with your ghost 
     G5       D5              G5 
In love with your ghost  (shadowing my dreams) 
     G5       D5    G5 
In love with your ghost  (ooooooooh) 
     G5       D5     G5 
In love with your ghost  (ooooooooh) 
  

   G5   D5   G5 
{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