Ghost of a Chance (Single)

As soon as I kicked the bucket
It was easier to forget than
A classic city obituary
While it should've been a fatal letter
Looks like you've gotten better
At taking good news gracefully

Maybe it was time I told you
Now that I'm in the deep six hold queue
It's not your fault you never called me
You can decorate the morgue with red flags
Cough out your popcorn lung between drags
It won't stop until you join me

There's not a ghost of a chance
Or a whisper of fate
You thought you were close
But you were lapped in the race
It's a haunted dance
How I'm drifting away
And how you stay
There's not a ghost of a chance

When you said "I don't want to be the diplomat"
You better believe I would've felt that
If I could still feel at all
There were bluebirds in the trees when my ashes hit the stone
So tell me what's the color of being alone
Oh don't worry I already know

You maintain hope I'll learn the ropes
But they're all frayed I fear
It takes the form of who you are
And who I used to be

(When you said you don't want to be the diplomat
Do you ever get the feeling you'll regret that
When you said you don't want to be the diplomat
When you said
When you said

When you said you don't want to be the diplomat
I've been haunting the halls since you said that
When you said you don't want to be the diplomat
When you said
When you said)

There's not a ghost of a chance
Or a whisper of fate
You thought you were close
But you were lapped in the race
It's a haunted dance
How I'm drifting away
And how you stay
There's not a ghost of a chance
There's not a ghost of a chance