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I'm not calling you a liar,
Just don't lie to me.
I'm not calling you a thief,
Just don't steal from me,
I'm not calling you a ghost,
Just stop haunting me,
And I love you so much,
I'm gonna let you,
Kill me.
There's a ghost in my lungs
And it sighs in my sleep,
Wraps itself around my tongue,
As it softly speaks
Then it walks, then it walks with my legs
To fall,
To fall,
To fall, at your feet.
Oh but for the grace of god go on,
And when you kiss me, I'm happy enough to die.
I'm not calling you a liar,
Just don't lie to me.
And I love you so much,
I'm gonna let you
I'm not calling you a thief,
Just don't,
And I love you so much,
I'm gonna let you,
Oh,
I'm not calling you a ghost,
Just don't
There's a ghost in my mouth
And it talks in my sleep,
Wraps itself around my tongue,
As it softly speaks
Then it walks, then it walks
Then it walks with my legs
To fall,
To fall,
To fall,
To fall,
To fall,
To fall, at your feet.
Oh but for the grace of god go on,
And when you kiss me, I'm happy enough
Just don't lie to me.
I'm not calling you a thief,
Just don't steal from me,
I'm not calling you a ghost,
Just stop haunting me,
And I love you so much,
I'm gonna let you,
Kill me.
There's a ghost in my lungs
And it sighs in my sleep,
Wraps itself around my tongue,
As it softly speaks
Then it walks, then it walks with my legs
To fall,
To fall,
To fall, at your feet.
Oh but for the grace of god go on,
And when you kiss me, I'm happy enough to die.
I'm not calling you a liar,
Just don't lie to me.
And I love you so much,
I'm gonna let you
I'm not calling you a thief,
Just don't,
And I love you so much,
I'm gonna let you,
Oh,
I'm not calling you a ghost,
Just don't
There's a ghost in my mouth
And it talks in my sleep,
Wraps itself around my tongue,
As it softly speaks
Then it walks, then it walks
Then it walks with my legs
To fall,
To fall,
To fall,
To fall,
To fall,
To fall, at your feet.
Oh but for the grace of god go on,
And when you kiss me, I'm happy enough
Lyrics submitted by liliroze, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Track duration: 03:05
"I'm Not Calling You a Liar" as written by Florence Leontine Mary Welch, Isabella Janet Florentina Summers
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"There's a ghost in my lungs
And it sighs in my sleep,
Wraps itself around my tongue,
As it softly speaks
Then it walks, then it walks with my legs"
She's in love with this guy but her mind is telling her he's gonna lie to her or steal from her while her heart is convincing her that he's not a liar or thief. Although she's trying to get away from him and avoid the feelings she keeps being dragged in by her love for this man. Her heart is causing him to haunt her dreams. Her heart is speaking for her. Her heart is leading her back to him. Her heart is playing the part of a ghost.
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"I'm not calling you a liar,
Just don't lie to me.
I'm not calling you a thief,
Just don't steal from me,
I'm not calling you a ghost,
Just stop haunting me,"
I'm not entirely sure about this part, really. It sounds rather like she's begging her lover to be kind to her; I think he has hurt her before several times in the past.
"And I love you so much,
I'm gonna let you,
Kill me."
This is saying that she loves him despite the fact that he is no good for her, that he'll wind up killing her in the end.
"There's a ghost in my lungs
And it sighs in my sleep,
Wraps itself around my tongue,
As it softly speaks
Then it walks, then it walks with my legsTo Fall,
To Fall,
To Fall, at your feet."
I think the ghost she's talking about is kind of like this love inside her, the love she has for the man, but she doesn't really want to love him because of the fact that he's hurting her, but she doesn't really have a choice. The "ghost" is controlling her, and taking her to him in a submissive kind of way ("to fall at your feet"). And I think the rest of the song just repeats this.
"And when you kiss me, I'm happy enough"
His occasional kindness and love is enough to make her stay with him, despite everything.
Seems kind of silly now, but I think I prefer it that way, anyway :)
the line 'i'm not calling you a ghost but stop haunting me' says it all
than again i think interpretations of songs also says something about you
Sometimes you know what the outcome will be, and can't stop.
"I'm not calling you a liar, just don't lie to me"
her telling him that if he's going to tell her that he loves her, he best mean it.
"I'm not calling you a theif, just don't steal from me"
her asking him not to take her heart from her
"I'm not calling you a ghost, just stop haunting me"
she can't stop thinking about him
But because she loves him so much, she's going to give in and let him take over her? Though I'm sure it could be potrayed as an abusive relationship also!
If the song was originally called 'ghost', it's telling us that the "ghost" metaphor is what the song is really about.
The singer describes the ghost as follows: it's something that haunts her; it makes her sigh in her sleep (it's in her lungs) and it makes her say things she wouldn't normally say (it's wrapped around her tongue); it even makes her walk up to someone (it walks with her legs) and fall down at their feet.
If there is such a thing that makes her dream about someone, makes her happy enough to die when they kiss her, makes her sigh at night, makes her say and do things she wouldn't normally say or do, makes her fall down before someone -- if there is such a thing, it is love.
Because this is 'ghost' I'd say she was relating to an old love 'stop haunting me' and she still loves him so much she's going to let the feelings take over and kill her 'I love you so much, I'm going to let you kill me'.
Just my thoughts - most touching song I've heard in years and she sings it with such passion x