Ghost in the Pedal Steel
TitanChord
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
Timing is estimated — lines are spaced evenly across the track.
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Lyrics
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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