lyrics

"Time Like a Ghost" by Races to April

I'm lying awake and I feel you breathing, asleep and dreaming next to me
We're lost without the formula for comfort we've invested in
As time flies like a ghost, like ribbons of smoke floating weightless and blue
In this room, where there's nothing to remind me of me without you

So put your hands where I can see
Something doesn't feel right, like you're feeding me a line
Cause I swear I've heard this somewhere before
I'll swallow every word between your lips
But if you're just lying through your teeth,
Maybe you're right and we knew it all along
We're better off alone

Bands of light of the morning through the blinds are there to wake me when
I can never miss you more than when the sheets are cold beside me

So put your hands where I can see
It's fair to say my better days have got the best of me

Something doesn't feel right, like you're feeding me a line
Cause I swear I've heard this somewhere before
I'll swallow every word between your lips
But if you're just lying through your teeth,
Maybe you're right and we knew it all along
We're better off alone

My favorite lines are bold. My discovery of this band and this song were completely unplanned. It's sort of funny in a way. I forget what messageboard I had been posting on at the time - this was a few years ago - but I was in a thread with one of those silly band name games, where you post a band whose name starts with the last letter of the band posted before you. My letter was R and I went to Purevolume to look for interesting bands that started with R, and I came upon Races to April's page. I never really got into any of their other songs but I've always loved this one. It's still up on their Purevolume page if you want to check it out, too.