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How to Live with a Ghost

from Behind the White Noise by Ted Mccloskey

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How to Live with a Ghost

You crawl inside your couch and don’t tell a soul
Those cushions make you feel like you have control

You can save everyone but you can’t save yourself
When you’re the one that shuts down and never asks for help
What you’re hiding from, nobody knows
But it’s high time you make friends with the ghost

You stick to a rigid morning routine
And keep that one room apartment painfully clean

You neatly fold dirty clothes till they look pristine
All to keep skeletons where they can’t be seen
What you’re hiding them from, you don’t know
It’s high time you make friends with the ghost

Keep to yourself, stay in your room
Where no one can see all of those wounds
“Keep to yourself, clean up that room”
That’s where you spent your misspent youth

Whatever childhood you had was stolen from you
It’s the damaged world that you woke up to

What you didn’t know then, you fully now
But you’re too hard on yourself to let yourself down
What you’re hiding from, deep down you know
It’s high time to make friends with the ghost

Shake, shake, shake hands with the ghost
Make, make, make friends with the ghost
That’s how to live with a ghost

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from Behind the White Noise, released July 14, 2023

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Ted Mccloskey State College, Pennsylvania

Ted McCloskey has been telling compelling stories to local and national audiences for years. He is a singer/songwriter, a multi-instrumentalist, a producer and film composer. He has eleven records to his name alone. His music has been featured on hundreds of network and cable programs and he’s shared the stage with the likes of Jason Isbell, Ryan Adams, and Alejandro Escovedo. ... more

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