[Intro]
Ghost in the moonlight
Throw your veil upon these grounds
Cold! The night is starbright
Pale is all beauty of your gown

Dark, frame a fire!
Mystery of a bloodred rose
Dark! Shine sapphire!
You won't leave me on my own

[Verse 1]
Raised my head above the haze
I woke up to a world
I feel almost humanized
Tender loving all around
Apparently profound
Through self-deceitful eyes

[Verse 2]
Now, what am I supposed to be?
For sure, it can't be me
In orderly array
My, it's feeling so unreal
How daunting to be free
In the light of day
[Pre-Chorus]
Lost in this world
With no place to go

[Chorus]
Awaiting the night
To yell a prayer up to the starlight
Veiling boon: Ghost in the moon
Grant me admission tonight
Into your tenebrous, wicked starbright
Golden gloom: Ghost in the moon

[Verse 3]
Whispers sounding from the brake
Sinister eyes along the way
A phantom rushing through the night
Making haste, run from the dawn
Back across the Rubicon
To the shelter from the light

[Verse 4]
Before the sun is gonna rise
To reflect it in their eyes
A sight no one's gonna stand
Oh, your blood is gonna freeze
Different blood: A different breed
No one's gonna comprehend
[Pre-Chorus]
They teach you love
They make you belong...
Suck you in to spit you out
The rage is on...

[Chorus]
Awaiting the night
To yell a prayer up to the starlight
Veiling boon: Ghost in the moon
Grant me admission tonight
Into your tenebrous, wicked starbright
Golden gloom: Ghost in the moon

[Post-Chorus]
Like a rushing thunder
You're a shade in the swampland
And a Trojan horse
They'd rowel into your dreams
They chase you into dawn
To a silken bed of quicksand
Rush, so you can breathe, they'll give you up
You're in my world past remedy

[Bridge]
Asking, wondering, look at me:
Waiting... prompting...
I may be drawn to something
That I can't phrase for you
Even though it's true
I won't be what they long to see in me
No matter how desperately
They reach out for me, a sedating hand
They don't understand, I don't comprehend
I can't take no more of their shallow light
Burning me inside
Then I am better off a scorn in the night

[Bridge 2]
I am rumour, I am nightmare
That I'm bound to dream myself
Half human, and it's frightening
To just guess the other half

I'm a misfit on a journey
And I'm afraid my destiny
Has been sealed right from the outset:
To immure the real me
I'll wane in this world
Just me and the glow of the moon
Yeah, wow

[Guitar Solo]

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Verse 5]
For the chill of the night
Is gonna summon a fire
A strange world on the brink
Or a maniacal dream?
Dead matter alive: heart, soul, and desire
Rise from the smoke and the fire
From maniacal dreams
Crucible-born and unseen
Megalomaniacal dream
Megalomaniacal dream

[Chorus]
To chase the...
Ghost in the moonglow
Throw your gown upon the light
Ghost in the moonglow
Whisper from the starlit skies

[Outro]
Dark, frame a fire
Mystery of a bloodred rose
Moon, spark a fire
You won't leave me on my own