You've Haunted Me All My Life - Death Cab for Cutie, Benjamin Gibbard, Christopher Walla

You’ve haunted me all my life

Through endless days and countless nights

There was a storm when I was just a kid

Stripped the last coat of innocence

You’ve haunted me all my life

You’re always out of reach when I’m in pursuit

Long winded then suddenly mute

And there’s a flaw in my heart’s design

For I keep trying to make you mine

You’ve haunted me all my life

You’ve haunted me all my life

You are the mistress I can’t make a wife

And you’ve haunted me all my life

And so I wait but I never seem to learn

How to capture your diminishing returns

I still see you through the eyes of a child

Not even thinking we could tame the wild

You’ve haunted me all my life

You’ve haunted me all my life

You are the mistress I can’t make a wife

And you’ve haunted me all my life

You’ve haunted me all my life

You’ve haunted me all my life

You are the mistress I can’t make a wife

And you’ve haunted me all my life