Ghost - Witch Image Lyrics
You (you...) have never stood this close
To where you want to be
You (you...) have always waded in the shallows
Between me and the deep blue sea
You never want this to be over
You never want it to reach out to the edge of time
While you sleep in earthly delight
Someone's flesh is rotting tonight
Like no other to you
What you've done you cannot undo
I (I...) have always kept you closer
Than you have known
Behind you on a pale white horse
You would never want me to appear
You never want this to be over
Someone's flesh is rotting tonight
Like no other to you
What you've done you cannot undo
While you sleep in earthly delight
Still, your soul will suffer this plight
Like your father in hell
What you've sold you cannot unsell
While you sleep in earthly delight
Someone's flesh is rotting tonight
Like no other to you
What you've done you cannot undo
While you sleep in earthly delight
Still, your soul will suffer this plight
But like a mother would save
Her own child from digging a grave
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- Ghost - Absolution
- Ghost - Majesty
- Ghost - Mummy Dust
- Ghost - He Is
- Ghost - Cirice
- Ghost - Bible
- Ghost - Ashes
- Ghost - Mary On A Cross
- Ghost - Kiss The Go-Goat
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- Ghost - It's A Sin
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Ghost Witch Image Comments
Words can not describe my love for this band.
That fucking drum solo
This song brings the series "Dead Like ME" to mind
Square hammer 2.0
The background vocals are magical
its so awkward to not listen to Ghost summoning some devil midway the song but so good and unique
I'm scared of playing this song so many times in bucle that I might end up hating it.
1:59-2:40 this part tho !!
The bridge is the best part of this song. Goes off-quilter in other parts... But that bridge.
One of the best damn things he ever wrote.
Wish he repeated it more.
Ghost e vida
This song is the proof that how important and vital Omega was to Ghost both in the individual and songwriting process. If anyone interested, Witch Image is basically a developed version of an old demo song called "Sleepy Eye June" by MCC. Most of the commenters here keep saying how great musician Tobias is, but forget about the work what Omega put into Ghost. Sure, Tobias also has talent and taste in songcrafting, he really knows how to put various music parts together to sound great, this is why he is the main writer. But those of who are saying Ghost will always be the same, even without original members are lying. Basically Ghost still has the Meliora masks in this Prequelle era.
The whole album is a total departure from their previous work so anyone who claims they are the same is deaf.
@Patrick cellar door this whole album is still 10/10
@BESTMAHMOUD10VEVO That's true, i love this album.
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0:32 reminds me of The Witcher. :D
Separuh nafaskuuuu
gg jurabala prepotente
I've had this song stuck in my head for 4 days now. Best song from a fantastic album.
Si vector
So is this what Michael Stipe is doing now? Aha!
*epic dual solo*
*sweet drum fill*
''WHILE -- YOU -- SLEEP''
Why is this specific song labelled as metal? Its rock clearly
Because it doesnt really matter.
I madly love how they skip the "While you sleep in earthly delight..." part :0
BLUE OYSTER CULT!!!!!
Blue Oyster Ghost..kkkk
''While you sleep in earthly delight/Still your soul will suffer this plight.
Like a mother would save/Her own child from digging a grave.''
Not only do I very much enjoy listening to to ghost I also love to sing their songs not just at home but in a Karaoke ! which I have done a few times. Being able to sing/perform a track being able to really feel a song in this way is something else and then there is the enjoyment of seeing peoples faces who have never heard this kind of music before. Witch Image is another song I love singing
Im sorry its a great song,but the whole other album is ass
my hands down favorite song on the album love the whole album but like i said witch image BY FAR my favorite right behind cirice which is what go me into this amazingly epic band
Best song on the album by far, and that's saying something
dance macabre
@SLo K If you like super-soft pop ballads, sure.. Some people aren't as soft as you, though.
@OmegaSanction And some people recognise real music when it hits them without actually having a need for it to be hard or Metallllllll. Still, i get your point, it took time for me to respect ghost for the awesome band they are
burn your local church
🔮❤
I don't know why but it kinda reminds me of Poison by Alice Cooper
Ohh yehhaa
support the artists.buy the album
This is pure greatness. While we listen someone's flesh is rotting tonight.
I Fucking love this album!!!
well ghost fans, this song reeeeaaaalllyyy got me.....and boy it got me hard, I LOVE IT
Melhor música do álbum, na minha opinião.
.... this album has all the ingredients to become a classic . Just let the years roll by and we will find it will still be there among the elite of rock albums !!!
I really want to know the meaning of these lyrics
Irina Joykillingston I think its about a murder?
It's about the bubonic plague (black death) wich wiped out half of Europe
Its about the people of london trying to have fun in pubs and bars despite somewhere else in the city people were dying of the plague
Its death talking to someone who is thinking of suicide
The Devil's Blood much?
Love the guitar on this one.
I was blown away by this song. Most reviews of the album barely mention it or say something about the chorus passively but I think it might be the best track of the whole endeavor with the catchiest Ghost refrain to date. I can't get enough! It's like BÖC on steroids playing 'Square Hammer'! That second pre-chorus where he holds out 'OVVEEEERRRRAAAAH!' straight back into the chorus is fucking hair raising and makes you want to fistbump Satan.
AMSG overaah lol. Anyway the second chorus first line is cut just to place the epic overaaah
It's pretty much ABBA meets Alice Cooper - And that's awesome
AMSG
Ikr
was reading the comment while listening and read the "OVVEERRRRAAAH" part the same time it played and got goosebumps all over the place.
This song and album are unique. It has metal, it has pop, it has hard rock. Most important, no other band would attempt this amalgamation, and it works really well. Ghost has balls. Say what you want about T Forge, the man can write great songs.
@Isac Pettersson You're wrong a lot. You must like it. Wether or not they are credited on the album would be determined by the CONTRACT, not some unwritten rule of music. He doesn't run a traditional band where the musicians are all equal partners. He's running the show and can get the players to sign anything he wants in a contract, or they don't have to play in his band or help write the songs.
@nitemareman1 i never said they get everything equal. My point is that they get a lot less because they contribute to a lot less, which is probably written in a contract that gives Tobias a lot more money etc. Which i think makes sense given the work he puts in as opposed to the ghouls
@Isac Pettersson Again, completely wrong. You have NO IDEA how much they contribute, or what they are paid for it.
@nitemareman1 Of course i don't, I'm speculating about what I think is most likely and what seems most logical to me.
@nitemareman1 But you read all of those contracts, right? Get off your high horse, you fucking drama queen.
Obtuve él álbum él 31 de mayo
It's like 70s AOR, 80s pop metal, and modern harmonic hard rock had a love child with Satan. Fabulous stuff guys!
A goddamn masterpiece, nothing else! Ghost is just awesome 24/7, and every fucking day it's a - Ghostday!!!
When he starts to sing in this song it sounds like MCC to me
This is my favourite song from Prequelle.... It's been on repeat for 2 days straight
Two days? Dude, i can't stop to listen this album for last four months ;___;
I love this album, even tho its more pop in this then all their other albums.. But this song wins it all !!
I hear Subvision's vibe in that one :D Great
I'm loving the swedish folk touch in this song. I don't know why so many people disliked the new album. This album is the pinnacle of today's music industry who had fallen long way down into the pit.
It's the internet. If something gets popular there's certain people who go out of their way to hate on it, or try to ruin it for others in some way.. I just don't bother reading their posts once I see the direction it's going in.
From the pinnacle to the pit
The problem was too many ballads, really. Ben Eller is a guitar teacher / youtuber who reviewed it, and he summed it up perfectly.
Too many ballads, and no edge, aside from like.. Faith.
It's a fine album, people just prefer others to it. Even Tobias Forge said it was creatively troubled, due to the legal issues they were dealing with. He said it "feels less cohesive" than their previous work and I agree.
@OmegaSanction "no edge"
@OmegaSanction I'd disagree, the album plays beautifully as a rock opera, and I think the definition of 'ballad' needs questioning here. The only ballads on the album which I would say are actual ballads are Pro Memoria and Life Eternal.
You could say Witch Image, potentially, but its mostly just a slow song rather than a ballad.
Either way, the album was exceedingly well received in most places and plays perfectly as a rock opera, full of drama and theatrics.
Thank Satan for Ghost!!!
Kaiser Klovis Klans hail Satan
Hail Satan Almighty!!!
Káiser klovis Klans be careful with what say
Favorite of the new album on the first listen
Thought this song was ok first time. Liked it more second time. Third time, I love it! Just had to let it sink in
Apesta este album popero
DeutscheLaRosche eso es porque no eres capaz de apreciar otros tipos de música que no sea Metal puro y duro... es cierto que este álbum no es el más metalero que tienen, pero ellos nunca dijeron que hiciesen metal... ellos dicen hacer pop, aunque tiran lógicamente del rock y el metal en casi su totalidad (será que la musica pop en Suecia es así xd) el álbum es muy bueno, tiene canciones mejores y otras menos buenas, pero decir que apesta solo porque no suena a metal es un poco dejado xd
Ghost se sale de lo cotidiano. son como una recopilación del rock variando ritmos, melodías. Excelente disco!
Wow... So good...
Tobias just got back yesterday. He had his time machine set for 1988 and he was instructed to bring back the most melodic hard rock he could find. He done good.
maybe tobias and set time machine to black plague era for lyrical inspiration
make that 1987
It reminds me of Pet Shop Boys. I mean this as a compliment.
Beautiful, attended their first ritual of the tour in Riverside, Ca. Perfect, loud, metal.
Like a fkn tasteful mix of Magnum, Scorpions and BÖC! This track is outstanding!
good for heart and soul.i love ghost
I'm going BUY/PAY FOR this album Support GHOST!!!
Been there, done that - limited edition is on its way :)
Finally Prequelle is out! It´s just awesome!
The entire album is fire... So good.
Its one of those albums you can just press play and enjoy every song. Good job Ghost.
Jose Azucena yeah I'm only 14 and doing GCSE music and i performed but i kinda made up the chorus but i went pretty well. Also the guitar solo on rats is hard. I can play the slower beginning part of the solo but that was hard as nails
Jose Azucena
Indeed it is
Jose Azucena
SHAY GERAGHTY i liked Helvetesfönster so much! I think the translation is the window of hell or something like that
Love it!!!
I like this one a lot
Kyle Welsh yes the more i hear it it could easily be another single. There are so many on here that could vie for a single.
Kyle Welsh
Same
this is pure Bob Catley :)
aye i can hear magnum for sure here
Martin Kupčo Agreed!
And there's a cool suggest... A ghost/avantasia crossover, Bob and the tobias !.
Mariano GDS Bob, Tobias and Tobias! That would be something!
100% 80's stuff.HAHA WE ARE BACK!!!!
please the album thx
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