You were my rock, you were my anchor No longer shielding me from the blisters, the sores, and cankers All those nights of tossing and turning Past embers brightly burning Now I'm left with this travesty of Third degree burns and charred memories Places are like ghosts They can haunt us all What are you trying to conjure from me? The ghost's of christmas past The one's who never last Another foreclosed hideaway You woulda coulda been The greatest story that I ever told Do you hear the sounds of my restless bones? They are growing old I'm so sick of transitional seasons If we could only try change for treason I always take the worst of the beatings Because I'm the first arriving and the last one leaving Places are like ghosts They can haunt us all What are you trying to conjure from me? The ghost's of christmas past The one's who never last Another foreclosed hideaway You were my hideaway Wreckage from the past united Our safe havens bulldozed and divided I always take the worst of the beatings I always take the worst of the beatings I always take the worst of the beatings I'm the first arriving and the last one leaving Places are like ghosts They can haunt us all What are you trying to conjure from me? The ghost's of christmas past The one's who never last Another foreclosed hideaway Another foreclosed hideaway Another foreclosed hideaway You were my hideaway