empty ribs in an empty room so fragile you can see right through thinking i ll heal if i just don t move then comes that voice saying you re a fool been trying to write for months now hush the worst of thoughts with words out of my mouth but what can you say when your heart s gone out i d ask for a light but i am much too proud here it comes hot like a fever i can t run helpless to the burn telling me love you ll never learn i am the haunted and i m the ghost i am the hand wrapped round my own throat i am the poison where is my antidote all the boys they push my name between their teeth like i m the killer and not the nicotine but maybe i am maybe there s something about me a bitterness in my bones though god knows i was trying for sweet here it comes hot like a fever i can t run helpless to the burn telling me love you ll never learn i am the haunted and i m the ghost i am the hand wrapped round my own throat i am the poison where is my antidote breaking down from the inside out clench my fists can t just give it all up i m made of more than this here it comes hot like a fever i won t run shut the voices out no more will i burn myself down i am the haunted and i m the ghost i m tired of haunting open the window draw out the poison i am my antidote