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It was just a legend that the counting house was hereThat's what we told the protesters as the building was clearedAnd I didn't tell a person, as we hauled away the trashThat I saw a worn down sign beneath the rubble dust and ashAnd if hadn't known better, I'd've thought it used to say"Marley and scrooge" before it faded awayWe can charge more ren on new flats than an old Victorian blockSo we hauled away the cobblestones where Ebenezer walkedKept up with the job, there was plenty left to doLondon's full of old things to replace with something newAnd so street by street I watched the old brick buildings fallMaking way for car parks, concrete flats and shopping mallsBut late in the evenings through the constant rainI swore that I could hear the sound of someone rattling chainsAnd meanwhile outside, I heard distant voices talkBut there was no one to be seen out where Ebenezer walkedFinally one night I just couldn't take it anymoreAnd ran outside not looking at the knocker on the doorThere were ghosts in every alley, holding chains for me to seeMarley looked just like his picture, said now, come with meAnd the lights in all the windows were like smears against the fogAs he took me through the city where Ebenezer walkedOn the wings of the wind he flew me through the townLetras de cancionesGhosts flew by beneath us, til finally we touched downIn a newly empty neighborhood where we'd just cleared out a spaceAnd I begged him, "tell me, spirit, who haunts this lonely place?"I looked down at my hand and saw that I could see right throughAs the chains appeared he said "we've saved this one for you"What becomes of ghosts who have nowhere left to haunt ?We're invisible beside you where Ebenezer walked From Letras Mania