As the autumn wind whispers

Through the tall and lonely pines

And the hour of fate is

Drawing close at hand

Freebird falling from the sky

Brings a bitter end

To another southern man

(But) There's a grey ghost

Runnin' through the night

An echo of the sadness and the pain

Grey ghost runnin' through the night

The man is gone but his spirit will

remain

Fast like them, the music is

Just a thin disguise

For the heartache and

The fear of goin' old

Without the one that means the most

It makes you realize that

You're the one left out in the cold

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The dealer of death

Has dealt the losing hand

And it's a cold fact

The cards don't ever lie

Through the fire dream of things to

come

It's such a price to pay

When the memories

Are all that's left behind

Repeat Chorus