I flirted with death in a moonlit dance
Now it haunts my steps won't leave me to chance
His ghostly love a chain that won't atone
I entertained death now it won't leave me alone
In the graveyard's quiet dusk where ancient whispers weave
I met a boy from the '80s in the cool of eve
His aloneness hung like mist upon the old stones' breadth
And in his deep and haunting eyes I saw the depths of death
At first my heart leaned in—pity for his eerie plight
A specter out of time enshrined in endless night
His story wove through graveyard winds a tale that caught my sigh
In the beginning there was warmth in the cold of his ghostly eye
But as the moon cycled through his love grew too profound
A clinging fog too dense in which my breaths were bound
A frost spread through his touch where once I found delight
Now turned to chains that held too tight his dark eyes void of light
Tap tap against the glass each midnight's dreary chime
A reminder of a ghostly love out of step out of time
Where once was sympathy and a flame sparked in the gloom
Now lies a chilling dread as I await my spectral groom
I flirted with death in a moonlit dance
Now it haunts my steps won't leave me to chance
His ghostly love a chain that won't atone
I entertained death now it won't leave me alone
With every midnight visit my patience starts to fray
His spectral grip is tightening in the dark he wants to stay
Dear ghost I plead for freedom with whispered gentle scorn
Yet he rages 'gainst the living; from peace he's newly torn
My life becomes a shadow play excuses wearing thin
To friends and kin I paint the lie; conceal the phantom's din
An eerie claim he lays on me with every sun's decline
A love that leeches vibrancy in the absence of the divine
Longing for the sun's caress but there's no spell to find
No ancient words to whisper no rituals to bind
I've come to terms with twilight that in my life now weaves;
The ghostly boy a presence that forever never leaves
Each day is shadowed by him a specter clinging tight
His quiet love enduring beyond the reach of light
No closure found at dusk no peace at dawn's first sight
In every moment lingers the boy from that fateful night
I flirted with death in a moonlit dance
Now it haunts my steps won't leave me to chance
His ghostly love a chain that won't atone
I entertained death now it won't leave me alone