[Intro]
Old lights on an empty stage
Dust falls where the legends played
I hear the crowd from far away
Ghosts of the glory days

[Verse]
There’s a jacket in the hallway
With a ticket in the sleeve
There’s a photograph of brothers
Who forgot how to believe
There’s a melody still ringing
In the cables and the floor
Like a voice from some forever
That is not forever anymore

[Pre-Chorus]
I can still feel the thunder
I can still see the flame
But the past is a beautiful liar
When it whispers your name

[Chorus]
Ghosts of the glory days
Calling from the stage lights
Ghosts of the glory days
Dancing in the midnight
They say remember who you were
But don’t become a slave
To the echoes and the praise
Of the ghosts of the glory days

[Verse]
We were young enough for danger
We were loud enough for war
Every city was a promise
Every night an open door
We believed that we were endless
We believed we could not fade
Till the morning found us older
Than the heroes that we played

[Pre-Chorus]
I can still feel the thunder
I can still see the flame
But the past is a beautiful liar
When it whispers your name

[Chorus]
Ghosts of the glory days
Calling from the stage lights
Ghosts of the glory days
Dancing in the midnight
They say remember who you were
But don’t become a slave
To the echoes and the praise
Of the ghosts of the glory days

[Instrumental]
A guitar sings like an old friend crying
A snare rolls soft like a heart still trying
Every chord opens one more door
To the nights we can’t live anymore

[Bridge]
I won’t curse the golden memory
I won’t burn the sacred page
But I won’t sleep inside the ruins
Of a younger man’s parade
Let the past become a lantern
Not a chain around my hands
I can love the life behind me
And still learn how to stand

[Breakdown]
Not the crown
Not the stage
Not the lights
Not the age
Not the roar
Not the name
I’m still more
Than yesterday

[Build-up]
Let them sing, let them fade
Let them bless the road I made
I will carry what remains
But I won’t live there again

[Chorus]
Ghosts of the glory days
Calling from the stage lights
Ghosts of the glory days
Dancing in the midnight
They say remember who you were
But don’t become a slave
To the echoes and the praise
Of the ghosts of the glory days

[Chorus]
Ghosts of the glory days
I hear you but I’m leaving
Ghosts of the glory days
I’m done with only dreaming
I’ll take the fire, leave the chains
Walk alive through wind and rain
I won’t be buried in the haze
Of the ghosts of the glory days

[Outro]
Old lights on an empty stage
One last chord, then it fades
I close the door and walk away
From the ghosts of the glory days