HAUNTING
 

  Music & Lyrics by : Ian McLeish
 

1.
    She's haunting me again  - and I don't know what it means -
    After all this time I'd thought  - I'd find an ending to my bad dreams ;
    I can't explain what I'm feeling inside - and there's no place left to hide -
    She's haunting me again...

2.
    Like a vision she appears ; her presence takes me unawares -
    I can't fight the memories - and no one else even knows she's there ;
    If that ghost would just leave me me alone - my ailing heart could find a home -
    She's taunting me again...

Bridge 1.
    I've lost track of the arms that have held me tight
    Since she stripped me of my mind and my sight -
    And I've stopped counting the lips that I've lied to at night ;
    I can't regain something I've lost deep inside -
    What I miss other girls can't satisfy -
    No other love has found the key to this curse that's killing me -
    She's haunting me again...

Bridge 2.
    Ooh - if I could clear my head I'd be fine -
    Ooh - though my tears have long gone dry -
    Her photogenic phantom remains, unholy picture without a frame
    She's haunting me again...

3.
    How long can this go on ?  How much longer 'til I am free ?
    There's nothing left inside - she can't take take any more from me ;
    Leave me alone, woman, up and be gone - give back my will to carry on -
    She's haunting me again...
 

Copyright: 1978 Ian McLeish
Published: 1978 McMusic Ltd. CAPAC
Renewed: 1994 Mousehole Music SOCAN
 

Chuck : Drums, congas, cowbell.
 Ian : Bass, organ, acoustic guitars, maraccas, vocals.
John : Electric guitars, strange Spanish scraping instrument.
 

Haunting - Ottawa, Autumn 1978.
Some lovers seem to stick in your brain, no matter how hard you try to forget. Especially when they seem to be the perfect match. I was loved and dumped by one I thought was an angel - I was wrong. But a lot of good songs came out of the pain. This was one of them.