Ghosts in the Pines

[Verse] Dusty roads are whisperin' 'neath the crescent moon Barbed wire fences hum a melancholic tune In the breeze your name it flows Tangled in the pines Echoes of your laughter in these crooked sour times [Verse 2] Creaky porch where shadows play Secrets held so tight Footsteps on an old plank floor You're never out of sight Fading photographs Sepia They've seen better days Your ghostly grin Forever here In the woods it stays [Chorus] Ghosts in the pines Babe Haunting every song Wind through the needles Been alone too long Fragile hearts and trembling hands Trying to be strong But the past won't let me go So I move along [Verse 3] In the stillness of the dusk The truth's an open scar Woodsman’s axe on gnarled tree Don’t know where you are Mist rolls in on silent feet A specter of the past But memories like these They were never meant to last [Bridge] Underneath the velvet sky Stars they softly weep As the pines they lean and whisper of the secrets that they keep For each tear that falls A petal You left behind a streak A fragile trace where love once bloomed Though now it’s grown so weak [Chorus] Ghosts in the pines Babe Haunting every song Wind through the needles Been alone too long Fragile hearts and trembling hands Trying to be strong But the past won't let me go So I move along