Where have you been, my lonely ghost?
With your bloody cheeks and starry eyes
I’d like to keep you safe - but when I try, you always seem to realize that I'm still alive
Inside of a building filled with flames, where all your pieces fell like rain
While all the children slept at home, their mothers cried when you became my lonely ghost

And you spilled your little tears across the ocean-colored sky when you knew the time had come to let the light inside of you die
And you asked, “Why?”

Now you’re in fields of debris, your ashes growing with the weeds
And in my dreams I bury you in a better place, where all the bluebirds sing

I’ll paint my heart in spirals on a mountainside with you in mind
Your little cries so clear to me that when I sleep, it’s you I see
And it makes me cry

Flying pianos crash into the lakes - with your mothers' eyes, your father's name
Now I never sleep, I only dream - while in my bed you rush to me
Run off and catch your better days
Where the sun kisses your little face and you smile for me

I’ll never leave you, lonely ghost
I know you’re feeling left behind
Only when your little spirit flies in clouds of smoking waves, I will say goodbye