Giving Up The Ghost


released UK 24th May, 1999

CD: 1999 UK (Gnatfish Records; GNRCD 002)
Track 1. 3:35 Giving Up The Ghost
Track 2. 3:13 Now That You're Gone
Track 3. 4:22 Heart and Soul (live on tour '98)
giving up the ghost Songs:

  1. Giving Up The Ghost
    Produced by Carol Decker
  2. Now That You're Gone
    Produced by Carol Decker
  3. Heart And Soul (live)

    Tracks 1 and 2 mixed by Rafe McKenna
    Track 3 mixed live by Roberto Pieroni

Giving Up The Ghost
written by C. Decker (3:35)

I have waited patiently for your heart to call to me
Across the great divide of the years that have slipped by
All the long and lonely nights I lay bathed in pale moonlight
Upon the bed we graced, now there's just a cold and empty space
Even all my friends say it's time to let you go
It is time to break the hold

So I'm giving up the mention of your name
And I'm giving up the vision of your face
I'm forgiving us for letting go of love
Giving up the one I want the most
Giving up the ghost

I don't search to find a cure, I don't do that anymore
I learned to lay the blame on the strangers we became
We were just one step away from a truth I couldn't face
But I hoped against it all that our history would break our fall
So I prayed for love to save us and I wished upon a star
But you wished us far apart

So I'm giving up the mention of your name
And I'm giving up the vision of your face
I'm forgiving us for letting go of love
Giving up the one I want the most
Giving up the ghost

It's time to let you go
And you tried to show me how
Well I'm listening to you now
Your silence sends a message clear and loud

So I'm giving up the mention of your name
And I'm giving up the vision of your face
I'm forgiving us for letting go of love
Giving up the one I want the most
I'm giving up the ghost

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Now That You're Gone
written by C. Decker, S. Taylor (3:13)

Let me tell you the story of my life
About the fall from paradise that ended all my dreaming
And I tried and tried, but I could not put it right
So like a child on Christmas night, I just stopped believing

giving up the ghost

Now that you're gone, where do I run
Who do I give this love to
You, you threw it away
Everyday I have to live without you

Crowded room, I'm standing all alone
And though the faces come and go
Nobody seems to notice
A tearful tune is on the radio
Here to let me know
My heart is overloaded

Now that you're gone
Where do I run
Who do I give this love to
You, you threw it away
Everyday I have to live without you

If I seem ok, it's just a masquerade
The face I let you see hides the emptiness in me

Now that you're gone
Where do I run
Who do I give this love to
You, you threw it away
Everyday I have to live without you

Now that you're gone
Where do I run
Who do I give this love to
You, you threw it away
Everyday I have to live without you

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Heart And Soul - Recorded live October 7, 1998 at the Neptune Theatre in Liverpool
written by Carol Decker & Ron Rogers (4:22)

Something in the moonlight catches my eye
The shadow of a lover goes dancing by
Looking for a little bit of love to grow, so
Give me love, give me heart and soul
You never let me cross to the other side now
I'm tied to the hope that you will somehow
Hard on the heels of something more
But I lost your love, heart and soul

The tear in my heart as you walk on by (more than an ocean)
I feel so low and your head is high
Everything you do convinces me more (keeps us apart)
Please, give me love, give me heart and soul
Looking to the day when I saw your face (I feel a tearing in half of my heart)
I wasn't in the running, I wasn't in the race
You move in a way that I've known before
Now I want your love, heart and soul

Leaving you ain't easy now
Loving you's the harder part
You never want me for myself
Now I've needed you right from the very start
Oh won't you even try to

Give a little bit of heart and soul
Give a little bit of love to grow
Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
And don't you make me beg for more
Give a sign, I need to know
A little bit of heart and soul

Walking on the water, walking on the air (a walk on the water)
That was the heart of the love we shared
Do you keep secret left untold (is all that I need)
Can't give love, heart or soul
I used to have a lover with a Midas touch (but miracles are not happening)
I turned to gold but he turned to dust
Left me for another, I turned to stone
Now I want your love, heart and soul

Living in a fantasy
There's never any room to breathe
Hoping every waking hour
You'll turn around and say that we can start
Won't you even try to

Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
Give a little bit of love to grow
Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
And don't you make me beg for more (must I beg you)
Give a sign, I need to know
A little bit of heart and soul

Somehow, I lost my way
Looking to see something in your eyes
But love will never compromise
Now this is the politics of life, yeah!

Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
Give a little bit of love to grow
Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
And don't you make me beg for more (must I beg you)
Give a sign, I need to know
A little bit, little bit

Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
Give a little bit of love to grow
Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
And don't you make me beg for more (must I beg you)
Give a sign, I need to know
I want a little bit, a little bit
I said a little bit, a little bit oooh

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