Ghost Town - Shahmen

Shoe boxes full of photographs and love letters

Shotgun shells, a couple crow feathers

Kill a pack of camels as the morning sun breaks

Through my bedroom window in the Hollywood drug maze

Catch a high from the lights or the spike

I’ve been selling off my worries every night

Good advice needed, bad advice taken

Still waiting at the same train station

All my friends are ghosts and they’ve got no faces

Dance around with pockets full of posie till' we faded

Fall away and shedding skin hiding all the mess I’m in

Wrote a song about suicide and named it medicine

I wish time was just an hourglass

But life is so short, one day it’ll all pass

For today I’m open wide as an eagle glides

Cutting all these knives at the angles of my evil side

I’ve been waiting on an angel — this whole time

I’ve been lost and I’ve tangoed — to survive

Yeah I painted till' the pain goes — goodbye

Yeah I chase and I race for — a good life

I’ve been waiting on an angel — this whole time

I’ve been lost and I’ve tangoed — to survive

Yeah I painted till' the pain goes — goodbye

Yeah I chase for a taste of — a good life

Summer skin with my winter eyes

Hunting and searching for something that’s always been inside

Till' the tides run low and I’m standing at the beach side while the palm trees

blow

A calm breeze grows but I still feel nervous

All these accidents I did it on purpose

The hermit cracked the shell and I flipped my last penny in the lucky wishing

well

Time killing like murder

All these bodies filling out the floor further

Heaven’s high and hell is down, wonder where the hell I’m now

Somewhere in the hills at sun set above this ghost town

Smoke clouds float around, this fool’s golden crown

Used to drop a jewel, I just hold em' now

Hang it up and call it quits, cut your heart and slit your wrists

Or start to smile at the fact that you don’t know what it is

Is this house haunted or I’m to blame

Walked passed the mirror and I didn’t see a damn thing

I’ve been waiting on an angel — this whole time

I’ve been lost and I’ve tangoed — to survive

Yeah I painted till' the pain goes — goodbye

Yeah I chase and I race for — a good life

I’ve been waiting on an angel — this whole time

I’ve been lost and I’ve tangoed — to survive

Yeah I painted till' the pain goes — goodbye

Yeah I chase for a taste of — a good life