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I'd Rather Just Die

by These Are My Ghosts

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Now presenting the first single from a spaghetti western island fantasy musical storybook about a boy and a giant sea monster.

More singles coming soon...

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I am alone, just sitting by the seaside. Up comes a girl; she’s looking to see: why do I cry so? She sits at my beside, gives me a hug, and she cries with me.

“Jenny I’ve got something on my mind. Do you think you’d like to be mine?” She helps me up when it starts to rain. I may be just a boy, but I kiss her the same. I may be just a boy, but I love her the same.

God damn! God damn... God damn!

We sit with our knees up, watch the sky burning, me and my girl on the Fourth of July. Jenny looks over; I know what she’s thinking. I show her my back and wish her goodbye.

Late in the evening, I go home to my mother, tell her, “I’ve found the girl of my dreams!”

She says, “My son, you ain’t ready for a lover. You sure ain’t no man as far as I’ve seen!”

I run to the ocean because I’m starting to cry. "If I can’t have my love, well, I’d rather just die!"

"I’d rather just die...I’d rather just die...I’d rather just die...I’d rather just die!"

God damn! God damn... God damn!

© 2018 Ryan Henry Cox
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released June 14, 2019

Some backing vocals/accents by Michael Wells
Everything else by Ryan Henry Cox

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These Are My Ghosts Detroit, Michigan

These Are My Ghosts is the musical pseudonym of Ryan Henry Cox: a metro-Detroit lifer, thirty-something single father, Wayne State English grad, writer, and obsessive-compulsive recorder. Previously, Cox has been known as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist of The Red Rocks and The Good Things.

Under the "Ghosts" name, Cox composes conceptual musical stories.
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