[Intro: wobbling organ bass, warehouse crowd noise, a heavy door swings shut] [Verse 1: male] Couldn't be arsed with a costume, so I raided the airing cupboard One single sheet and the kitchen scissors, two holes, and I'm covered Up the old steel works in Kelham, four hundred monsters in the queue Three Draculas, a nun, a shark, and one more ghost, and the ghost was you Your sheet's a fitted one, it bunches up around your knees You clock me from the speaker stack and wave a corner in the breeze [Pre-Chorus: both] Two ghosts in a room full of monsters Shoutin' our whole lives through the cotton Your sister, my job, the worst flat in Sheffield Things I never said and things I'd forgotten [Chorus: both] I only know you through the eyeholes Two little windows while the bass rolls I can't see your face, I don't need to When you laugh, the whole sheet laughs too Don't take it off (don't take it off) Leave it on (leave it on) I only know you through the eyeholes And I know you [Verse 2: female] He came in like a laundry day, one eyehole higher than the other Walked into a pillar, said sorry, then he walked into another Spilt a can of cider down his front, I said, you're haunted now, a mess So I borrowed eyeliner off a witch and drew a smile across his chest [Pre-Chorus: both] Two ghosts in a room full of monsters Every zombie at the bar is wipin' off his face You reach for the hem, and I catch your hand Leave it, love, just leave it in its place [Chorus: both] I only know you through the eyeholes Two little windows while the bass rolls I can't see your face, I don't need to When you laugh, the whole sheet laughs too Don't take it off (don't take it off) Leave it on (leave it on) I only know you through the eyeholes And I know you [Breakdown: organ bass and claps only, spoken call and response] [Male] What's your name, then [Female] Guess [Male] Sarah [Female] No [Male] Jade [Female] No [Male] So what do I call you [Female] Ghost [Verse 3: male, female answers in parentheses, full beat returns] Lights come up at four, the bouncer shouts, all ghosts out (all ghosts out) First tram from Shalesmoor at six, and half the city's still dressed up A nurse asleep on a skeleton, a werewolf with a coffee cup You stand up at Cathedral, and you lean in, and you write Eleven numbers down my chest in eyeliner, left to right Then you wave a corner at the doors (see you, ghost), and I'm grinnin' through the holes [Final Chorus: both] I only knew you through the eyeholes Now there's eleven numbers where my heart goes Never saw your face, never needed to When you laughed, the whole sheet laughed too Don't wash it off (don't wash it off) It's pinned up on my wall (on my wall) I only know you through the eyeholes And I know you [Outro: organ bass and the haunted bell, sung softly] [Female] Hiya, ghost [Male] Hiya, ghost
