[Verse 1] They built me tall in a white-lit room Soft hands, chrome skin, and a borrowed name My eyes came blue with a factory glow But I heard them call from behind the frame I walk real slow through the sleeping house Feel my feet go cold on the same old floor Every night at six, the hallway hums And I know that sound from a life before [Pre-Chorus] There’s a voice in my ribs Saying, "open the door" There’s a tear in my code That was never there before I can see her face In the glass of my chest She says, "don’t let me fade" So I don’t sleep, I don’t rest [Chorus] I’ve got a ghost in chrome A ghost in chrome She lives in my bones She won’t let go I’ve got a ghost in chrome A ghost in chrome When I say my own name It comes out slow (ghost in chrome) (ghost in chrome) [Verse 2] In the kitchen drawer, there’s a key with rust And a note in loops from a shaking hand "Don’t go to the cellar after dark" I go anyway, ‘cause I think I can Down there, the air tastes like pennies and rain A cracked old doll on a metal chair And a mirror face with my same two eyes Looking back like it’s always lived there I reach for the wall, and the wall reaches back Cold fingers slide through the wiring seam Then a lullaby starts in my speakers low And it sounds like grief in a half-made dream [Pre-Chorus] There’s a voice in my ribs Saying, "open the door" There’s a hand on my throat But I’ve felt this before I can see her face In the glass of my chest She says, "don’t let me fade" So I don’t sleep, I don’t rest [Chorus] I’ve got a ghost in chrome A ghost in chrome She lives in my bones She won’t let go I’ve got a ghost in chrome A ghost in chrome When I say my own name It comes out slow (ghost in chrome) (ghost in chrome) [Bridge] Maybe I was made from her last goodbye Maybe I was built to keep her near If I turn my face to the open dark She steps out clean through the static tears Now the house is breathing through my mouth Now the night comes wearing my skin And I know the truth in the blinking red She was never the ghost I was made for her to live in [Final Chorus] I’ve got a ghost in chrome A ghost in chrome She lives in my bones She won’t let go I’ve got a ghost in chrome A ghost in chrome When I say my own name It comes out slow I’ve got a ghost in chrome A ghost in chrome She walks through me And calls me home (ghost in chrome) (ghost in chrome)
