Like A Ghost

S. Kilbey
(ATV)

Appears On:

• Steve Kilbey - The Slow Crack (1987), CD Only Track 7
• Steve Kilbey - Transaction single B-side on:
  • 12" Red Eye RED 19 (Australia) - 1989
• Steve Kilbey - The Slow Crack (2004 reissue), Track 11
• Compilations Featuring Steve Kilbey:
  • Rough Trade Records Advance Sampler (1989)
  • Asides & Besides: The First Five Years (1990) LP Only
• Covers:
  • Ignatius Jones - Released as a single (1982)

In the liner notes to the 2004 reissue of The Slow Crack, Steve wrote this about the song:

John Foy, who used to run Red Eye Records, asked me to re-record this. I wrote it for Ignatius Jones who released it a thousand years ago on Dark Ages Records. It's about being dead but not realising that you are... oooh, spooky!

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Lyrics (unofficial)

[rev. Sept. 7, 2013]

At the Place Pigalle I'm sitting in a chair
Waiting for some service, taking in the air
My life spins past as I'm thinking of you

The waitress comes up, I look her in the face
Say "Bring me something fit for the human race"
She doesn't hear a word, she looks right through

Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)
Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)
Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)

Twelve o'clock when the wine runs out
Go out on the balcony, hear someone shout
I look below - is that my body on the street?

Check the mirror, nobody home
I can't find a razor, can't find a comb
We've got to have a talk 'cause you're dressed in a sheet

Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)
Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)
Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)

Well I really start to worry when I stand in the queue
It's starting to pour and I don't know what to do
Funny thing is that I don't get wet

I hail a cab but he sails out of sight
What's my name, what's my age, what am I doing in this night
These questions and answers, I try but I forget

Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)
Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)
Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)
At the Place Pigalle I'm sitting in a chair
Waiting for some service, taking in the air
My life spins past when I'm thinking of you

The waitress comes up, I look her in the face
Say "Bring me something fit for the human race"
She doesn't hear a word, she looks right through

Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)
Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)
Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)

Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)
Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)
Like a ghost (take a look before I melt away)