Story Behind The Song

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.

Song Description

jazz based pop, similar to Santana.

Lyrics

Music & Lyrics by : Ian McLeish

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.