Page 175 of Goodbye Note

i wish i could burn it now

instead, i burned it into flesh

to Remember forever

Another track called Familiar Ghosts led in. Arik had been using ghosts as a theme since he made us those shirts. He had a handful of ghost tattoos, all carrying different things. The fans joked about him collecting all the objects that haunt him because of it.

Familiar Ghosts

bullets for a former lover in the shape of off- handed things.

i’ve taken so many to the chest

bled out of fucks.

these days i can’t remember what I’m fighting for.

And he’d say:

put those stars back in your eyes

“look at me Like you once did”

“how i used to admire your mouth full of poetry

but now it’s just cheap shots fired.”

i remember When you used to put those lips to better use, baby.

hold me to those words i never said

places we never went

words scream louder than Actions

and i’d rather not be another notch in Your belt

a distant memory in a life lived without me

and Still i mourn our white picket mess

the chances we didn’t take

times never been on my side

but i still wish You were mine

wishing On a star won’t get you far

every touch had me fucked

we were a museum at night

beautiful and haunted

silent and locked up

a secret not spoken about

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