Go Haunt Someone Else Lyrics - Put Your Ghost To Rest - Kevin Devine

The moralist on the mountain top 

The cap gun cowboy caught playin' dress up 

Patrols his cartoon beat with his costume clothes 

The damn fool with his ten ton chip 

His bourgeois blues and his heartbreak habit 

Slings his lightning bolts 

His arrows and stones 

But you could do it forever 

It won't make you better 

'Cause you won't find your mark 

You could use a mirror 

To see your target clearer 

But bad blood hijacked your heart 

But you got what you asked for 

So don't even start 

You're never a victim 

So own what you did son 

Admit what you are 

Dead weight in a tightrope trance 

The pain pill creatures stray in his wasteland 

Clenched teeth and a canyon he can't cross 

There's me racing right along 

The jukebox jester stuck on the same song 

Mouth full of lies a head full of holes 

Until I got worried 

You saw the life I could lead 

If I backed up off that rope 

And let the ground come to me 

Steady under my knees 

And my anger blurrin' into hope 

I asked for perspective 

And it untied my hands 

I see the relapsed way 

I chose my own way 

Can't blame me for that 

So when you're sorry 

And one day you will be 

I wish you all the best 

I hope that you drop softly 

And it don't end too badly 

And your ragin' head can finally rest 

And you could be honest 

And rescue yourself 

But ill walk my own way 

I'll go where you won't go 

You won't put me through hell, no, no 

'Cause now I see through you 

Believe what you need to 

Go haunt someone else