Perfect New Ghost

[Verse 1]
The dust motes dance on the Ficus you bought in May.
Every cell in your body, they say it's replaced.
That tiny scar on your knuckle is gone.
I trace the new skin where the old one belonged.

[Pre-Chorus]
And the floorboards we sanded, the posters we tore,
The coat that you patched, the key for the door.
Plank by plank, thread by thread, year by year...
I keep thinking, I keep thinking, I keep thinking...

[Chorus]
If we change it all out, are we still the same boat?
The same two kids in the photo you keep in your coat?
Is this still our love, or a perfect new ghost?

[Verse 2]
The ring from the coffee cup stained the wood grain.
You covered it over with yesterday's rain
in a watercolour sketch of the view from the Bahn.
You said, "Look, it's the city rebuilding again."

[Pre-Chorus]
And the floorboards we sanded, the posters we tore,
The coat that you patched, the key for the door.
Plank by plank, thread by thread, year by year...
I keep thinking, I keep thinking, I keep thinking...

[Bridge]
Every particulate of us is new.
Is the promise we made still attached to this you?

[Chorus]
If we change it all out, are we still the same boat?
The same two kids in the photo you keep in your coat?
Is this still our love, or a perfect new ghost?

[Outro]
Still the same boat...
A perfect new ghost...