Teach the Ghost to Sing

[Verse 1]
I gave the ghost a melody
It gave a hundred back
I showed it all my scattered thoughts
It filled the missing cracks

The songs I couldn’t orchestrate
The scenes I couldn’t draw
Suddenly came pouring out
Like they were there all along

[Chorus]
Teach the ghost to sing
Teach the wires how to dream
Turn the silence into color
Turn the impossible to screen

But if the ghost can sing like me
And paint the things I see
Tell me what remains
That only I can be

[Verse 2]
I know the fear is older
Than every tool we’ve made
The camera frightened painters
The synthesizer frightened stages

Still this feels different somehow
Like the mirror learned to speak
And every time I teach it something
It teaches something back to me

[Bridge]
Maybe art was never labor
Maybe worth was never skill
Maybe making means deciding
What deserves existence still

So I’ll choose the strange directions
I’ll provide the crooked spark
If the machine can hold the lantern
I’ll decide where we walk

[Final Chorus]
Teach the ghost to sing
Let it amplify the sound
I don’t have to be the instrument
To choose what gathers round