Emilie Autumn: Poem: Ghost

Did you know sometimes it frightens me
When you say my name and I can't see you

Will you ever learn to materialize before you speak
Impetuous boy, if that's what you really are
How many centuries since you've climbed a balcony
Or do you do this every night with someone else

You tell me that you never leave
And I am almost afraid to believe it
Why is it me you've chosen to follow
Sid you like the way I look when I am sleeping

Was my hair more fun to tangle
Are my dreams more entertaining

Do you laugh when I'm complaining that I'm all alone
Where were you when I searched the sea
For a friend to talk to me
In a year where will you be

Is it enough for you to steal into my mind
Filling up my page with music written in my hand
You know I'll take the credit
For I must have made you come to me somehow

But please try to close the curtains when you leave at night
Or I'll have to find someone to stay and warm me

Will you always attend my midnight tea parties
As long as I set your place
If one day your sugar sits untouched
Will you have gone forever

Would you miss me in a thousand years
When you will dry another's tears

But you say you'll never leave me
And I wonder if you'll have the decency
To pass through my wall to the next room
While I dress for dinner

But when I'm stuck in conversation
With stuffed shirts whose adoration
Hurts my ears, where are you then

Can't you cut in when I dance with other men
It's too late not to interfere with my life
You've already made me a most unsuitable wife
For any man who wants to be the first his bride has slept with

And you can't just fly into people's bedrooms
Then expect them to calmly wave goodbye

You've changed the course of history
And didn't even try

Where are you now
Standing behind me
Taking my hand
Come and remind me

Who you are
Have you traveled far
Are you made of stardust too
Are the angels after you
Tell me what I am to do

But until then I'll save your side of the bed
Just come and sing me to sleep