Story Behind The Song

I read an old ghost story about the white lady and how she was seen in a wedding dress or something and the rest just developed in my mind. At first I imagined a man thinking it was a real woman then finding out he could never have her. Then it developed

Song Description

Is it a man hung up on a woman he will never have, or a metaphor for another addiction. The first meeting or experience is awsome but he can never regain that feeling or experience. She or it will never love him the same way as that first time. Or did she

Lyrics

White Lady
Words & Music by Mike Arnold


Walking around after midnight
I should be sleeping, but still I go on
The sounds of the city now sleeping
Play on in my mind even though there not there

Knowing I should change direction
I should be somewhere but it isn?t here
Under the spell of that lady
Who tortures my mind with a need that I fear

I still remember the time and the place
When I first laid eyes on her beauty and grace
But she?ll never sing the same song as the first time
And you won?t remember the words past the first line

White lady, nothing appears as it seems
Living inside of your visions and dreams
Promises made that will never be real
Only the pain and the heartache you feel

When you are lonely, hungry and cold
You?ll dream of her lies and the stories she told
And soon you?ll invite her into your room
And breathe in the poison that is her perfume

You look at yourself in the mirror
The lines on your face mark the years that you?ve lost
Hoping that someday she?ll come back
And paying the price without knowing the cost

White lady, nothing appears as it seems
Living inside of your visions and dreams
Promises made that will never be real
Only the pain and the heartache you feel

Copyright 2004 MCM (BMI)