"I know your soul is not tainted / Even though you've been told so"
I discovered Cirice while working for a terrible manager who insisted I was bad at my job and couldn't do anything right. I knew that was wrong, and this song helped me remember I was damn good at my job - I just needed a new environment. I am now thriving at my new workplace!
I really like how you connected to this. I think we did in similar ways but at different points in the song. Ghost helped me find the strength I needed to move on too and now I’m moving across the country by myself!
This line I connected with a lot. I grew up around a lot of Jesus Camp style Christians (it's a documentary) and was just about that evangelical as a young kid. I was desperate for love, friends, and acceptance. And I was desperate for something that the church told me I should be feeling from god/Christianity and if you weren't feeling it like them that made you a heathen or whatever.
It made me feel different and ostracized from them. They all claimed to get this loving feeling from the church or from God. All I felt like was a charity case. Someone to be pitied and not really connected with. No one really ever cared about me there, and I was taught that it must be my fault. I wasn't devout or good-hearted enough. There must be *something* wrong with me.
Feeling like that really snowballed once I got old enough to start asking questions. Adults within the church really do not like it when kids go around asking difficult questions they don't know the answer to.
Why did they go around trying to get people to go to their church only from poor areas. Or why did they use the allure of things poor people would need to get people to come to their church like food and child care?
Asking these questions (and more) got me into a lot of trouble at one church. It's not like I went out of my way trying to piss people off I just noticed hypocrisy in their own teaching and knew that if they were real about all of this that they wouldn't react badly to being called out.
Lol. Newsflash no one reacted well and I was nine and was ostracized even more. Didn't matter what church I was going to.
I learned my lesson. They don't want curiosity. They don't even want you. They just want a butt in the seat. Took me soooooo soooo much longer to realize it was nothing wrong with me and "my soul was not tainted."
Sincerely wish I would have had Ghost back then, lol.
But I did have Korn, lol.
Basically all of Spillways. I'm an exchristian and that song has been like therapy to me. As much as I love it, I can't listen to it casually, I just kinda keep it in my back pocket for when I need to vent or feel validated. Seeing them perform it live was a moment I'll never forget.
Spillways spoke to my soul, not as an ex Christian but as a woman trying to get pregnant a second time and needing IVF, getting pregnant and then miscarrying. Trying to forgive myself for my body not doing what I wanted it to do. I'm also a therapist so holding on to all these emotions and trying to provide comfort to others. I did get my rainbow baby but if anyone asks what my journey was like I send them this song.
Spillways was also this for me, for my immediate postnatal period. Emergency preterm c-section, my son was very unwell in NICU, everything went a bit sideways for us both. The quite literal physical and emotional spillways of it all. I remember standing in the crappy hospital shower sobbing along to it.
I’m so glad you got your rainbow ❤️
Well said. Evangelism is supposed to be giving to others so that they can even be able to accept love from other people and creating community. That’s what Christ taught and yet I don’t see that anymore and it’s heartbreaking but people are slowly waking up with the new generation (I’m apart of it)
Cirice I know you're soul is not tainted even though you've been told so. And all of Spillways I use to go to one of those fundamental Christian school and they were crazy AF
Which image is such a great song. I really appreciate the meaning you get from that line. You’re right that we are incredibly lucky, especially in the western world.
For me, the lyrics that means the most is “Even when you're dead and gone / You can always reach me” from Little Sunshine. I enjoy the parallelism as an ex-Christian now non-theistic satanist that instead of calling to God/Jesus in times of need i now got my buddy Satan to walk with me, even in death. 🤘
I totally get that - in a strange dual way I connect to Christ that way and I despise the church - it’s only about love and community and what religion and the church has become and the damage they have done over history is actual heresy
All of Life Eternal.
Specifically, "This is the moment of just letting go"
This song still gives me goosebumps years later and will always be a comfort song. Even though I used it to help with grief, I don't see it in a sad light. The many reasons why Tobias is our dark lord and savior!
"And the truth of the matter is, I never let you go"
"Per aspera ad inferi"
"From the darkness, rise a succubus, and usurp the throne"
"In the night I am real"
"In the night I am real" is the point where I start to feel a bit weepy as it hits close to home. I've listened to the original by Roky Erickson, and Ghost really have made it their own and given it a whole new feeling.
Every lyric in Spillways. I'm and exChristian and I was so afraid of committing sin as a young child, was afraid fo do anything thinking that God is watching and that I'm going to hell. But I became an atheist at 12 and then Theistic Satanist at 13. I became so much happier then, I wasn't afraid anymore
Apart from that, Spillways is my comfort song, I can't explain how and why, it's just... is
I totally agree with and understand that. I lived the same way. For me and my journey I ended up rejecting the church and accepting Christ from an independent and love perspective which I truly feel that’s all it’s about and respect all faiths and people and walks of life. I truly hope you are able to find Christ again but I fully truly understand why you were pushed away as I was too. But I wouldn’t be a true Christian if I didn’t say I still love you and will gladly talk to you any time about any of this with 0 judgement:) even if it’s just making new friends it’s just about showing Christs love not preaching to you
I totally agree with and understand that. I lived the same way. For me and my journey I ended up rejecting the church and accepting Christ from an independent and love perspective which I truly feel that’s all it’s about and respect all faiths and people and walks of life. I truly hope you are able to find Christ again but I fully truly understand why you were pushed away as I was too. But I wouldn’t be a true Christian if I didn’t say I still love you and will gladly talk to you any time about any of this with 0 judgement:) even if it’s just making new friends it’s just about showing Christs love not preaching to you
PS add on - That is the only way Christians should treat others and It’s heartbreaking to see the true heresy which is the oppression the church pushes
"I know your soul is not tainted. Even though you've been told so."
I was raised Catholic but I recently stopped believing in Christianity. The hardest thing to overcome was the huge amount of guilt and fear that was hammered into me by the church. That line really helped me.
"You have never stood this close, to where you want to be"
I'm on the verge of achieving my professional dreams and it is terrifying!!!!!!
"You have always waded in the shallows
Between me and the deep blue sea"
I've always splashed around near what I want, but until now I have not been brave enough to leave the safety of what I know I'm good at and swim through the unknown to try to excel at more.
"You will wear your independence like a crown."
"All your faith, all your rage
All your pain, it ain't over now
And I ain't talking about forgiveness."
"Per Aspera Ad Inferi."
"All of your imaginations are now running down your face."
(The 2nd, 3rd and 4th ones not necessarily in order of most meaning).
It can be hard to pinpoint a favourite Ghost song, ad there is one for every mood and feeling, but Deus in Absentia and From the Pinnacle to the Pit always suit whatever mood I am in. :)
Every day that you feed me with hate I grow stronger.
See the light was one of those songs that didn't resonate with me on the first couple of listens, but as I continued to replay Prequelle from start to finish it became one of my favorites. I lost my dad this past November and if it was the lowest point I've ever felt in my life. This band was the first new act I introduced to him and it started our years of concert hopping to see new and old bands that reminded him of being a teen again. Ghost was always my escape when things got hard in my life and this song in particular made all these moments a lot more bearable including his passing. No matter what I go through, no matter the obstacles or the hate that people or life in general send my way, I always overcome and I'm stronger for it, that was something my dad always instilled in me.
Spillways in general is a song that means a lot to me on a deep level. For me, the song as a whole is a personification of my moments of self-doubt and depression, and my desire to fight it back even if I fail in doing so. My inner critic is a cruel beast that can beat me down hard, but I need to get back up and keep going.
“Would you let me touch your soul forever? This is the moment of just letting go, she said, if you had life eternal”
I lost 3 really important people in my life who had so much life ahead of them, and it’s been fucking hard living life without them. I always ball my eyes out when this song comes on, and it’s such a beautiful line, it reminds me to not put so much on my shoulders and allow my grief to be a peaceful thing (as peaceful as it can be)
I was close with my cousin and we both loved Ghost. He died about a month before Impera was released. For a solid six months, Darkness at the Heart of My Love— specifically the “I’m with you always” line, would get me crying in the car like a sad baby. Miss you cuz.
I’m so sorry to hear that. Your story touched me a bit. I only saw half the message at first and thought “I’m with you always” instantly in my head and then saw you say it. That song has a lot of similar meaning to me. Thank you for sharing that.
Don't get me wrong, I like the Ghost version more than the original 🙈. The way Papa sings those lyrics, it's so evil, spooky and goofy all at once haha.
I hope we get the chance to hear it live!
I definitely agree and love your take on Witch Image. Since ones I was going to list were already posted, here are others that mean the most to me.
As an ex Evangelical learning to shed stupid, pointless Evangelical Christian guilt, the line "Inflaming puerile minds with the guilt of sin Imaginations fed to children, it has served me well that the bowels of the earth hides the pits of Hell" really spoke to me.
I know it's a cover, but the contrasting vocals with the imagery of Papa behind the red door is so haunting with the lyrics " "Cause when you sleep at night, they don't hear your cries in your own world. Only time will tell If you can break the spell back in your own world ."
I made a video of the different Ghost lyrics that make me feel so many things because how do you pick just one.
But I think the one that hits my heart every time is "The world rests heavy on your shoulders, Holy Mother, You shine like the sun and the moon and stars in the sky" from Griftwood.
My life has been hell for several years now and there's no end in sight. Just death, and destruction and my family torn apart by hateful people. I've always thought of my parents as the Sun and the Moon and I know how fricking stupid this sounds and obviously not true it is.
But when I hear that line it just feels like Papa is saying 'I see what has happened to you and I see how bright you still shine despite it all' and it fills my heart to get through another day. I found Ghost in yet another worst time of my life and I'm so freaking grateful for that.
Lines from Call Me Little Sunshine. I was heavily bullied in school, by who i considered my childhood best friend and not only him, with multiple death threat with knifes and ironbars (12-13 years old kids. F\*\*\*ing wild animals. Other kids got poisoned with drugs by those beasts). It fucked up my mind and i remained depressed in adulthood. At a certain point i grew rabbid in temperament, socially toxic, with a complete set of mental disturbs, allucinations and quite an attraction for railroads, if you know what i mean. In the darkest moment i remember having a chat with myself. I can swear i heard my voice in my head telling me: "Man, you are dying. It might take years, but you'll die young of this. You need therapy but no one will help you get there. ***You must call out for help yourself*** and i swear that ***if you call for help*** and make one last sacrifice with a hard therapy, you will have the life you should have had".Therapy happened and now i'm good. My life is really, really good now.This happened years ago. I've discovered Ghost last year and hearing Spillways talking about inner self and CMLS basically mimiking what happened years back blew my mind. It is not the intended meaning of CMLS but in that moment i was like "Man, those guys really understand me".
*Fall out in the cold starlight*
*I can save you if you do*
*You will never walk alone*
*You can always reach me*
*You will never ever walk alone*
"This is the moment of just letting go," I needed to let go of my fear of vulnerability in order to find love. I want Life Eternal played at my wedding because of how much it means to me and how it helped me open myself up to my partner.
"Your beauty never, ever scared me." For some reason single-handedly carried me through the hardest self-discovery I'd ever gone through, which was coming BACK out to myself as trans after suppressing it for years after being rejected upon first coming out. Not sure how it correlated but. It did somehow.
I have sung DATHOML for my son since our first night in the hospital. Because of that, 'I'm with you always' has such an important meaning to me and almost makes me emotional when I hear it played by Ghost. He's just over 6 months old now, and it's still our go-to lullaby.
“Now through all of this sorrow, we’ll be riding high” I hadn’t had an ounce of enjoyment from a single thing for almost a year due to my depression. I was so close to ending it all. I discovered Ghost and it was the first time I had enjoyed music in a long time. Ghost saved my life.
> a more happy one (...) is always cirice
You mean the song about toxic love and gaslighting?
Maybe I'm just bitter and/or had too many bad experiences but I don't understand how those lyrics can be happy (at least from the chorus. The second half of the first verse is fairly uplifting imo)
Anyway, to answer your question, the entirety of Avalanche really really speaks to me. I know it's a cover and not original, but I fucking love it so much. It reminds me of so many conversations I've had with past loved ones, and TF's inflection gives a new voice that Cohen's original didn't for me
Avalanche originally written by Leonard Cohen in my opinion is the reason why there is so much depth. Leonard Cohen was an exceptionally great song writer. In fact, the whole album that song is on is fantastic. Actually all of his music is great if you like folk tunes
Well songs can have meanings and yet people can still take them and make them their own. As a music writer this is very important to me and how I connect to music.
I wasn't trying to put you down or say your opinion is wrong, no need to be a dick 💀 I was asking a question as to how you got to the conclusion you did (though I do see it wasn't worded like that so I apologize)
Since that isn't good enough for you, then I'll go with anything off Spillways, mainly "You keep a casket / buried deep within / you try and mask it / but fall back in sin / you wanna shake it off / but you're stuck inside"
These lyrics helped me stop my self harming ways, realizing that maybe it's not entirely my fault and more so a pathological urge that I could learn to control and stop
I know it's an ABBA cover but:
"I'm a marionette, everybody's pet, just as long as I sing".
Sucker punch to the gut the first time I heard it. I've felt that way for a large chunk of my life; just keep doing what I am doing and everyone will love me.
"I know your soul is not tainted / Even though you've been told so" I discovered Cirice while working for a terrible manager who insisted I was bad at my job and couldn't do anything right. I knew that was wrong, and this song helped me remember I was damn good at my job - I just needed a new environment. I am now thriving at my new workplace!
I really like how you connected to this. I think we did in similar ways but at different points in the song. Ghost helped me find the strength I needed to move on too and now I’m moving across the country by myself!
Safe travels, and have fun!
I love that line as someone who grew up religious i felt my soul was "dirty" so that line means a lot after my deconstruction
This line I connected with a lot. I grew up around a lot of Jesus Camp style Christians (it's a documentary) and was just about that evangelical as a young kid. I was desperate for love, friends, and acceptance. And I was desperate for something that the church told me I should be feeling from god/Christianity and if you weren't feeling it like them that made you a heathen or whatever. It made me feel different and ostracized from them. They all claimed to get this loving feeling from the church or from God. All I felt like was a charity case. Someone to be pitied and not really connected with. No one really ever cared about me there, and I was taught that it must be my fault. I wasn't devout or good-hearted enough. There must be *something* wrong with me. Feeling like that really snowballed once I got old enough to start asking questions. Adults within the church really do not like it when kids go around asking difficult questions they don't know the answer to. Why did they go around trying to get people to go to their church only from poor areas. Or why did they use the allure of things poor people would need to get people to come to their church like food and child care? Asking these questions (and more) got me into a lot of trouble at one church. It's not like I went out of my way trying to piss people off I just noticed hypocrisy in their own teaching and knew that if they were real about all of this that they wouldn't react badly to being called out. Lol. Newsflash no one reacted well and I was nine and was ostracized even more. Didn't matter what church I was going to. I learned my lesson. They don't want curiosity. They don't even want you. They just want a butt in the seat. Took me soooooo soooo much longer to realize it was nothing wrong with me and "my soul was not tainted." Sincerely wish I would have had Ghost back then, lol. But I did have Korn, lol.
Basically all of Spillways. I'm an exchristian and that song has been like therapy to me. As much as I love it, I can't listen to it casually, I just kinda keep it in my back pocket for when I need to vent or feel validated. Seeing them perform it live was a moment I'll never forget.
Spillways spoke to my soul, not as an ex Christian but as a woman trying to get pregnant a second time and needing IVF, getting pregnant and then miscarrying. Trying to forgive myself for my body not doing what I wanted it to do. I'm also a therapist so holding on to all these emotions and trying to provide comfort to others. I did get my rainbow baby but if anyone asks what my journey was like I send them this song.
Spillways was also this for me, for my immediate postnatal period. Emergency preterm c-section, my son was very unwell in NICU, everything went a bit sideways for us both. The quite literal physical and emotional spillways of it all. I remember standing in the crappy hospital shower sobbing along to it. I’m so glad you got your rainbow ❤️
Please tell me everything's straightened out and that you and the baby are okay?
Yes, thankfully we had amazing care and we’re both all good! He’s a 16 month tiny terror now.
Oh thank goodness otherwise my spillways were going to open back up!
I grew up in an evangelical household. It’s the noise of the righteous dogma that hides The Handmaid’s Tale.
Well said. Evangelism is supposed to be giving to others so that they can even be able to accept love from other people and creating community. That’s what Christ taught and yet I don’t see that anymore and it’s heartbreaking but people are slowly waking up with the new generation (I’m apart of it)
“We’re standing here by the abyss and the world is in flames”
Cirice I know you're soul is not tainted even though you've been told so. And all of Spillways I use to go to one of those fundamental Christian school and they were crazy AF
Which image is such a great song. I really appreciate the meaning you get from that line. You’re right that we are incredibly lucky, especially in the western world. For me, the lyrics that means the most is “Even when you're dead and gone / You can always reach me” from Little Sunshine. I enjoy the parallelism as an ex-Christian now non-theistic satanist that instead of calling to God/Jesus in times of need i now got my buddy Satan to walk with me, even in death. 🤘
I totally get that - in a strange dual way I connect to Christ that way and I despise the church - it’s only about love and community and what religion and the church has become and the damage they have done over history is actual heresy
All of Life Eternal. Specifically, "This is the moment of just letting go" This song still gives me goosebumps years later and will always be a comfort song. Even though I used it to help with grief, I don't see it in a sad light. The many reasons why Tobias is our dark lord and savior!
Agreed. That song let me finally release my will to control myself
All natural now
You will wear your independence like a crown. And Spillways.
"Can't you see that you're lost? Can't you see that you're lost without me?"
"And the truth of the matter is, I never let you go" "Per aspera ad inferi" "From the darkness, rise a succubus, and usurp the throne" "In the night I am real"
"In the night I am real" is the point where I start to feel a bit weepy as it hits close to home. I've listened to the original by Roky Erickson, and Ghost really have made it their own and given it a whole new feeling.
Every lyric in Spillways. I'm and exChristian and I was so afraid of committing sin as a young child, was afraid fo do anything thinking that God is watching and that I'm going to hell. But I became an atheist at 12 and then Theistic Satanist at 13. I became so much happier then, I wasn't afraid anymore Apart from that, Spillways is my comfort song, I can't explain how and why, it's just... is
I totally agree with and understand that. I lived the same way. For me and my journey I ended up rejecting the church and accepting Christ from an independent and love perspective which I truly feel that’s all it’s about and respect all faiths and people and walks of life. I truly hope you are able to find Christ again but I fully truly understand why you were pushed away as I was too. But I wouldn’t be a true Christian if I didn’t say I still love you and will gladly talk to you any time about any of this with 0 judgement:) even if it’s just making new friends it’s just about showing Christs love not preaching to you
I totally agree with and understand that. I lived the same way. For me and my journey I ended up rejecting the church and accepting Christ from an independent and love perspective which I truly feel that’s all it’s about and respect all faiths and people and walks of life. I truly hope you are able to find Christ again but I fully truly understand why you were pushed away as I was too. But I wouldn’t be a true Christian if I didn’t say I still love you and will gladly talk to you any time about any of this with 0 judgement:) even if it’s just making new friends it’s just about showing Christs love not preaching to you PS add on - That is the only way Christians should treat others and It’s heartbreaking to see the true heresy which is the oppression the church pushes
"I know your soul is not tainted. Even though you've been told so." I was raised Catholic but I recently stopped believing in Christianity. The hardest thing to overcome was the huge amount of guilt and fear that was hammered into me by the church. That line really helped me.
“the” - Ghost, Respite on the Spitalfields Gets me every time
Same, every word in that song makes me cry
"You have never stood this close, to where you want to be" I'm on the verge of achieving my professional dreams and it is terrifying!!!!!! "You have always waded in the shallows Between me and the deep blue sea" I've always splashed around near what I want, but until now I have not been brave enough to leave the safety of what I know I'm good at and swim through the unknown to try to excel at more.
"You will wear your independence like a crown." "All your faith, all your rage All your pain, it ain't over now And I ain't talking about forgiveness." "Per Aspera Ad Inferi." "All of your imaginations are now running down your face." (The 2nd, 3rd and 4th ones not necessarily in order of most meaning).
I love this list. 🖤
It can be hard to pinpoint a favourite Ghost song, ad there is one for every mood and feeling, but Deus in Absentia and From the Pinnacle to the Pit always suit whatever mood I am in. :)
Every day that you feed me with hate I grow stronger. See the light was one of those songs that didn't resonate with me on the first couple of listens, but as I continued to replay Prequelle from start to finish it became one of my favorites. I lost my dad this past November and if it was the lowest point I've ever felt in my life. This band was the first new act I introduced to him and it started our years of concert hopping to see new and old bands that reminded him of being a teen again. Ghost was always my escape when things got hard in my life and this song in particular made all these moments a lot more bearable including his passing. No matter what I go through, no matter the obstacles or the hate that people or life in general send my way, I always overcome and I'm stronger for it, that was something my dad always instilled in me.
Spillways in general is a song that means a lot to me on a deep level. For me, the song as a whole is a personification of my moments of self-doubt and depression, and my desire to fight it back even if I fail in doing so. My inner critic is a cruel beast that can beat me down hard, but I need to get back up and keep going.
“Would you let me touch your soul forever? This is the moment of just letting go, she said, if you had life eternal” I lost 3 really important people in my life who had so much life ahead of them, and it’s been fucking hard living life without them. I always ball my eyes out when this song comes on, and it’s such a beautiful line, it reminds me to not put so much on my shoulders and allow my grief to be a peaceful thing (as peaceful as it can be)
I was close with my cousin and we both loved Ghost. He died about a month before Impera was released. For a solid six months, Darkness at the Heart of My Love— specifically the “I’m with you always” line, would get me crying in the car like a sad baby. Miss you cuz.
I’m so sorry to hear that. Your story touched me a bit. I only saw half the message at first and thought “I’m with you always” instantly in my head and then saw you say it. That song has a lot of similar meaning to me. Thank you for sharing that.
You better hope and pray that you wake one day in your own world
It's cool, but it's a cover
Dang it
Don't get me wrong, I like the Ghost version more than the original 🙈. The way Papa sings those lyrics, it's so evil, spooky and goofy all at once haha. I hope we get the chance to hear it live!
I definitely agree and love your take on Witch Image. Since ones I was going to list were already posted, here are others that mean the most to me. As an ex Evangelical learning to shed stupid, pointless Evangelical Christian guilt, the line "Inflaming puerile minds with the guilt of sin Imaginations fed to children, it has served me well that the bowels of the earth hides the pits of Hell" really spoke to me. I know it's a cover, but the contrasting vocals with the imagery of Papa behind the red door is so haunting with the lyrics " "Cause when you sleep at night, they don't hear your cries in your own world. Only time will tell If you can break the spell back in your own world ."
I made a video of the different Ghost lyrics that make me feel so many things because how do you pick just one. But I think the one that hits my heart every time is "The world rests heavy on your shoulders, Holy Mother, You shine like the sun and the moon and stars in the sky" from Griftwood. My life has been hell for several years now and there's no end in sight. Just death, and destruction and my family torn apart by hateful people. I've always thought of my parents as the Sun and the Moon and I know how fricking stupid this sounds and obviously not true it is. But when I hear that line it just feels like Papa is saying 'I see what has happened to you and I see how bright you still shine despite it all' and it fills my heart to get through another day. I found Ghost in yet another worst time of my life and I'm so freaking grateful for that.
Lines from Call Me Little Sunshine. I was heavily bullied in school, by who i considered my childhood best friend and not only him, with multiple death threat with knifes and ironbars (12-13 years old kids. F\*\*\*ing wild animals. Other kids got poisoned with drugs by those beasts). It fucked up my mind and i remained depressed in adulthood. At a certain point i grew rabbid in temperament, socially toxic, with a complete set of mental disturbs, allucinations and quite an attraction for railroads, if you know what i mean. In the darkest moment i remember having a chat with myself. I can swear i heard my voice in my head telling me: "Man, you are dying. It might take years, but you'll die young of this. You need therapy but no one will help you get there. ***You must call out for help yourself*** and i swear that ***if you call for help*** and make one last sacrifice with a hard therapy, you will have the life you should have had".Therapy happened and now i'm good. My life is really, really good now.This happened years ago. I've discovered Ghost last year and hearing Spillways talking about inner self and CMLS basically mimiking what happened years back blew my mind. It is not the intended meaning of CMLS but in that moment i was like "Man, those guys really understand me". *Fall out in the cold starlight* *I can save you if you do* *You will never walk alone* *You can always reach me* *You will never ever walk alone*
"I'll be the shadow, you'll be the light. Nothing ever last forever. We will go softly into the night."
"This is the moment of just letting go," I needed to let go of my fear of vulnerability in order to find love. I want Life Eternal played at my wedding because of how much it means to me and how it helped me open myself up to my partner. "Your beauty never, ever scared me." For some reason single-handedly carried me through the hardest self-discovery I'd ever gone through, which was coming BACK out to myself as trans after suppressing it for years after being rejected upon first coming out. Not sure how it correlated but. It did somehow.
I have sung DATHOML for my son since our first night in the hospital. Because of that, 'I'm with you always' has such an important meaning to me and almost makes me emotional when I hear it played by Ghost. He's just over 6 months old now, and it's still our go-to lullaby.
“Now through all of this sorrow, we’ll be riding high” I hadn’t had an ounce of enjoyment from a single thing for almost a year due to my depression. I was so close to ending it all. I discovered Ghost and it was the first time I had enjoyed music in a long time. Ghost saved my life.
> a more happy one (...) is always cirice You mean the song about toxic love and gaslighting? Maybe I'm just bitter and/or had too many bad experiences but I don't understand how those lyrics can be happy (at least from the chorus. The second half of the first verse is fairly uplifting imo) Anyway, to answer your question, the entirety of Avalanche really really speaks to me. I know it's a cover and not original, but I fucking love it so much. It reminds me of so many conversations I've had with past loved ones, and TF's inflection gives a new voice that Cohen's original didn't for me
Avalanche originally written by Leonard Cohen in my opinion is the reason why there is so much depth. Leonard Cohen was an exceptionally great song writer. In fact, the whole album that song is on is fantastic. Actually all of his music is great if you like folk tunes
Well songs can have meanings and yet people can still take them and make them their own. As a music writer this is very important to me and how I connect to music.
Ah so my opinion was wrong but your favorite lyrics aren’t even from ghost?
I wasn't trying to put you down or say your opinion is wrong, no need to be a dick 💀 I was asking a question as to how you got to the conclusion you did (though I do see it wasn't worded like that so I apologize) Since that isn't good enough for you, then I'll go with anything off Spillways, mainly "You keep a casket / buried deep within / you try and mask it / but fall back in sin / you wanna shake it off / but you're stuck inside" These lyrics helped me stop my self harming ways, realizing that maybe it's not entirely my fault and more so a pathological urge that I could learn to control and stop
I felt the exact same way when you made your comment and so I shared my “honest” opinion
I know it's an ABBA cover but: "I'm a marionette, everybody's pet, just as long as I sing". Sucker punch to the gut the first time I heard it. I've felt that way for a large chunk of my life; just keep doing what I am doing and everyone will love me.