- Ghost in the Pedal Steel (Alt 1)

Intro They scrubbed my face off every screen

Verse 1 They scrubbed my face off every screen Left my name a stretch of green Every billboard learned to lie Wears her smile and won't say why So I dragged the wood guitar Out to where the dead towns are Struck one chord the grid can't kill And the dead flats went dead still

Pre-Chorus Then the signage started humming Every buried voice come running Static clears its rusted throat Rides the wire on one long note

Chorus Ghost in the pedal steel The dead flats sing what's real Delete my face, you leave the sound Every soul I laid in the ground Comes bleeding up through broken neon Ghost in the pedal steel

Verse 2 Buried Cole when his upload broke Second-death, a wisp of smoke Now I hear him hit the low Bending strings I taught him slow Marker nine, I let her lie Chrome came knocking, told it die Now she rides the buried tone Hums the harmony back home

Pre-Chorus Every corpse the grid disowned Trades its silence for a tone Chrome can burn a man from view Can't unlearn the note he grew

Chorus Ghost in the pedal steel The dead flats sing what's real Delete my face, you leave the sound Every soul I laid in the ground Comes bleeding up through broken neon Ghost in the pedal steel

Bridge Take the towns, take the towers Take the names, take the hours Take my face out of the light You will never take the night I play Ghost in the pedal steel The dead flats sing what's real Delete my face, you leave the sound Every soul I laid in the ground Comes bleeding up through broken neon Ghost in the pedal steel

Outro Sing it up out of the ground Sing it up out of the ground Chrome can't hold a single sound Ghost in the pedal steel

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