Ghost Ships

We talked forever about a blue house in a magazine

The orange flames of maple leaves in Fall

We’d fix the cellar, piano in the living room

Bookcase and curtains in the hall

I made a scrapbook in my mind of future times

Sailing on ghost ships

Out to sea on ghost ships

Things we never did

Maybe winter, digging out from snow

The last nor’easter froze us to the core

Or maybe youth, hadn’t lived enough to see

The way that love can leave you wanting more

By summer we were through

House of blue

Sailing on ghost ships

Out to sea on ghost ships

Things we never did

Unlived lives on ghost ships

Still afloat on ghost ships

Lives we never lived

Now and then I hear some news of you

Looks like somehow we both made it to the other coast

Do you believe in ghosts?

Sailing on ghost ships

Out to sea on ghost ships

Things we never did

Unlived lives on ghost ships

Still afloat on ghost ships

Lives we never lived

Do you believe in ghosts?