Ghost in the Mill Lyrics

Ghost in the Mill

This tale gets told time and time again

As old and as new as original sin

Begins with a promise that cannot be sustained

And dies in the rust of abandon

The story goes there's a ghost in the mill

After sixty odd years he's in there still

If you look close enough just might catch a glimpse

In the old shattered glass of a window

This town took a turn when the factory fell

The old men among us remember it well

Don't you close it all down without payin' your bill

Cries the ghost, the ghost in the mill

Some say his old heart is black as coal

The fading last light of a forgotten soul

He wanders alone on the old factory floor

Where nobody works anymore

This town took a turn when the factory fell

The old men among us remember it well

Don't you close it all down without payin' your bill

Cries the ghost, the ghost in the mill

Now the wind whistles through that cavernous hall

with a whispering moan of relentless fall

where once there was light and unbridled belief

Is now but a shade of America

And what's to be done with that old iron beast

As is fades in the west with no hope from the east

What's a young man to do with his industry now

When there is no place to shape his conviction

Will we clean it all up or tear it all down

Stoke the fires again or burn it down to the ground

Will we learn from the past or suffer the fate

Of the ghost, the ghost in the mill